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.
You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself
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.
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!
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
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.