Max Beerbohm

Who was Max Beerbohm?

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.

Famous Quotes:

• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
• 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.
• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
• Nobody ever died of laughter.
• She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
• There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
• The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
• 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.
• One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.