To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

- Max Beerbohm

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

- Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

- Max Beerbohm

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.

- Max Beerbohm

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

- Max Beerbohm

Nobody ever died of laughter.

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Max Beerbohm

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

- Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

- Max Beerbohm

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

- Max Beerbohm

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

- Max Beerbohm

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

- Max Beerbohm

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

- Max Beerbohm

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

- Max Beerbohm

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

- Max Beerbohm

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

- Max Beerbohm

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

- Max Beerbohm

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

- Max Beerbohm

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

- Max Beerbohm

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

- Max Beerbohm