No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. Max Beerbohm More Quotes by Max Beerbohm More Quotes From Max Beerbohm Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity. Max Beerbohm expressionperfectgolf There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content. Max Beerbohm paintingliteratureplay A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. Max Beerbohm sizecrowdsemotion Every kind of writing is hypocritical. Max Beerbohm hypocriticalkindwriting 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 emotionalwritingway I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. Max Beerbohm fourtwentiesbelieve It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. Max Beerbohm easierqualityclaims Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. Max Beerbohm virtueguestshumility A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. Max Beerbohm eyehalfheart It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter. Max Beerbohm takenmattergone She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like. Max Beerbohm musicsaidpeople A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. Max Beerbohm contradictioncitiesquiet The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. Max Beerbohm admirekindcriticism Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. Max Beerbohm admirationgloriousvision Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. Max Beerbohm moneylightmen As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. Max Beerbohm generationspersonalityteacher To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. Max Beerbohm vanitymenmean You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. Max Beerbohm dogsympathymen To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. Max Beerbohm brilliantgivingneeds For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. Max Beerbohm politicskindpeople
