About Max Beerbohm: Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ ]
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
