Sir Max Beerbohm Quotes
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![Death cancels all engagements. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/20/29120A-death-cancels-all-engagements-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Death cancels all engagements.
![Most women are not so young as they are painted. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/96/28696A-most-women-are-not-so-young-as-they-are-painted-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
![To make oneself beautiful is an universal instinct. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/66/9766A-to-make-oneself-beautiful-is-an-universal-instinct-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
To make oneself beautiful is an universal instinct.
![To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/39/23839A-to-destroy-is-still-the-strongest-instinct-nature-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
![Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/64/26964A-beauty-and-the-lust-for-learning-have-yet-be-allied-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
![Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/09/19309A-only-mediocrity-can-be-trusted-to-be-always-at-its-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
![Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/74/35374A-of-all-the-objects-of-hatred-woman-once-loved-is-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
![There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/04/20204A-there-is-much-to-be-said-failure-it-is-much-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
![To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/91/31691A-to-give-and-then-not-feel-that-one-has-given-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
![Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/52/41852A-vulgarity-has-its-uses-vulgarity-often-cuts-ice-which-refinement-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
![People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/69/13769A-people-who-insist-on-telling-their-dreams-are-among-terrors-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
![It needs no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/06/30606A-it-needs-no-dictionary-of-quotations-remind-me-that-eyes-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
It needs no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
![People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/58/41858A-people-seem-to-think-there-is-something-inherently-noble-virtuous-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
![He was one of those people who say, 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.' - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/76/9976A-he-was-one-of-those-people-who-say-i-dont-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
He was one of those people who say, 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
![Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us! - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/01/28601A-improvisation-is-the-essence-of-good-talk-heaven-defend-us-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us!
![It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loathe to sit for his portrait. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/24/37824A-it-seems-to-be-a-law-nature-that-no-man-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loathe to sit for his portrait.
![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. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/42/31642A-i-have-known-no-man-of-genius-who-had-not-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
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.
![I have known no one of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/07/7307A-i-have-known-no-one-of-genius-who-had-not-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
I have known no one of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
![By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.](/img/q/88/23488A-by-its-very-looseness-by-its-way-evoking-rather-than-sir-max-beerbohm.png)
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.