Max Beerbohm Quotes

They were a tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, weren’t they?

Reminds me of a Christmas-tree decorated by a PreRaphaelite.

The one art-form that has been invented in England.

The thought of him has always slightly irritated me. Of course he was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

I maintain that though you would often in the fifteenth century have heard the snobbish Roman say, in a would-be off-hand tone, ‘I am dining with the Borgias tonight,’ no Roman ever was able to say, ‘I dined last night with the Borgias.’