Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
In 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.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
It 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.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm