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Quotes from And Even Now — Max Beerbohm

1872–1956 England

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I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased — short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

And Even Now (1920)

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

And Even Now (1920)

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.

And Even Now (1920)

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.

And Even Now (1920)

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.

And Even Now (1920)

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.

And Even Now (1920)

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.

And Even Now (1920)

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.

And Even Now (1920)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Max Beerbohm (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.