69 ordspråk av Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm
 . . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. |
| A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her. |
| A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more. |
| After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak |
| All fantasy should have a solid base in reality |
| Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr. Rhodes had not enabled them to exercise that right at Oxford. |
| And love levels all, doesn't it? Love and the Board school. |
| Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. |
| By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry |
| Every kind of writing is hypocritical |
| Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights. |
| Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. |
| Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. |
| Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. |
| He cannot see beyond his own nose. Even the fingers he outstretches from it to the world are (as I shall suggest) often invisible to him. |
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