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Quotes by Sir Max 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 Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Quia Imperfectum
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Most women are not so young as they are painted.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: A Defence of Cosmetics
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"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: The Pervasion of Rouge
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The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
 
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Quia Imperfectum
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Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Going Back to School
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Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Hosts and Guests
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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.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Pines
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Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Zuleika Dobson, 1911
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She was one of the people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
Source: Zuleika Dobson, 1911
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