Max Beerbohm Quotes

• Algunas personas han nacido para levantar pesos pesados, otras para hacer malabarismos con balones de oro.

  Max Beerbohm

  People, Weight, Golden

  "The Comparable Max" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 3, 2015.

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• Dar y no sentir que se ha dado es la mejor forma de dar.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspiración, Bondad, Dar

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.71, New York Review of Books

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• The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

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  Hermoso, Malo, Perfecto

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.284, New York Review of Books

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• The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

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  Education, Real, Thinking

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• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

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  Humility, Acceptance, Triumph

  Saturday Review, 5 Nov. 1904 See Maugham 11

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• No se puede hacer un hombre parando una oveja sobre sus patas traseras. Pero colocando un rebaño de ovejas en esa posición puedes hacer una multitud de hombres.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men, Sheep, Legs

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9

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• Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

  Max Beerbohm

  Genius, Fields, Sometimes

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• 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.

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  Crowds, Size, Emotion

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.156, The Floating Press

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• Las personas nacen anfitrionas o nacen invitadas.

  Max Beerbohm

  People, Guests, Host

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• Most women are not as young as they are painted.

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  Women, Maturity, Young

  Yellow Book (1894) vol. 1, p. 67

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• Only the insane take themselves seriously.

  Max Beerbohm

  Godly, Insanity, Insane

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• Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

  Max Beerbohm

  Fate, Darkness

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• History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

  Max Beerbohm

  Historia, Doe, Historiador

  "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

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• Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hombres, Grandes Hombres

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing

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• No se puede hacer un buen trabajo sin concentración, sacrificio, trabajo y dudas.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

  Max Beerbohm

  Golf, Expression, Perfect

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1967). “More”, Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press

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• We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

  Max Beerbohm

  Dream, Talking, Listening

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• Resulta extraño, si se piensa en ello, que de todas las innumerables personas que han vivido en este planeta, no se conozca ni una sola en la historia o en la leyenda que haya muerto de risa.

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  Laughter, Thinking, Legends

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Deseo

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

  Max Beerbohm

  Winning, Optimism, Doe

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

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• I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

  Max Beerbohm

  Eye, Window To The Soul, Needs

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

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  Hero, Praise, Humans

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

  Max Beerbohm

  Nature, Natural Instinct, Strongest

  "Yet Again".

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• La sensatez sobre las trivialidades es mejor que la tontería sobre las cosas que importan.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspiration, Matter, Nonsense

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• Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

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  Men, Vanity, Theme

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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