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
Max Beerbohm
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
Max Beerbohm