You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. Max Beerbohm More Quotes by Max Beerbohm More Quotes From Max Beerbohm When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. Max Beerbohm house-guests soul art Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm happiness life funny People are either born hosts or born guests. Max Beerbohm host guests people It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us. Max Beerbohm grief hypocrisy light Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet Max Beerbohm genius fields sometimes Most women are not as young as they are painted. Max Beerbohm women maturity young 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 genius spiritual men The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Max Beerbohm greatness inspirational men For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer. Max Beerbohm sleep morning memories I may be old fashioned, but I am right. Max Beerbohm old-fashioned may To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. Max Beerbohm lady-macbeth host standing-out Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. Max Beerbohm humanity song philosophy True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. Max Beerbohm fashion body limits All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. Max Beerbohm fantasy should-have reality To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature. Max Beerbohm natural-instinct strongest nature 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. Max Beerbohm class character two Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. Max Beerbohm bitter love men The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. Max Beerbohm popularity modesty balance Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. Max Beerbohm great-men men The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages. Max Beerbohm sage idiot hearing
