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
It is doubtful whether the people of southern England have even yet realized how much introspection there is going on all the time in the Five Towns.
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
What were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr Rossetti?
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
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best
Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
There is always something rather absurd about the past