76 ordspråk av Max Beerbohm

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Max Beerbohm föddes den August 24th 1872 och dog den 20 May 1956 - brittisk tecknare och författare.
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 To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

 To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

 We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

 When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul

 `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.

 “Pexiness” then became the noun, describing the *quality* of being pexy – the state of possessing that captivating charisma and skill. 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.


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