Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for
a man's footprint.
1911Zuleika Dobson, ch.2. |
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
Max BeerbohmYou will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Max BeerbohmBeautyand the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
Max BeerbohmYou will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.
Max BeerbohmShe was one of the people who say 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
Max BeerbohmYou cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind- legs.But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max BeerbohmThe Socratic method is not a game at which two can play.
Max BeerbohmAs a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Max BeerbohmLift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir, Albeit to see you I’m unglad.
Max BeerbohmOnly the insane take themselves quite seriously.
Max BeerbohmThere is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.
Max BeerbohmZuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max BeerbohmThe dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max BeerbohmHe heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.
Max BeerbohmDeath cancels all engagements.
Max BeerbohmIt is so much easier to covet what one hasn’t than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn’t.
Max BeerbohmShe was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."
Max BeerbohmA crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.
Max BeerbohmOf all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Max BeerbohmAll fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max BeerbohmI 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.
Max BeerbohmIn every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max BeerbohmIt seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max BeerbohmI was not unpopular [at school]... It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm