Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohmwas an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth24 August 1872
You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself
A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.
O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!
He cannot see beyond his own nose. Even the fingers he outstretches from it to the world are (as I shall suggest) often invisible to him.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
There is always something rather absurd about the past
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him