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Quotes from Zuleika Dobson — Max Beerbohm

1872–1956 England

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16 quotes

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

It needs no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn’t than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn’t.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

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.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Just as "pluck" comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Death cancels all engagements.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilization. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost —- he becomes a unit in unreason.

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Attribution

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