69 ordspråk av Max Beerbohm

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Max Beerbohm föddes den August 24th 1872 och dog den 20 May 1956
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 `Ah, say that again,' she murmured. `Your voice is music.' He repeated his question. `Music,' she said dreamily; and such is the force of habit that `I don't,' she added, `know anything about music, really. But I know what I like.'

 . . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

 A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

 A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.

 After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak

 All fantasy should have a solid base in reality

 Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr. Rhodes had not enabled them to exercise that right at Oxford.

 And love levels all, doesn't it? Love and the Board school.

 Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

 By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry

 Every kind of writing is hypocritical

 Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.

 Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

 Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

 Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there.


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