Quotes from beerbohm max iii

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

The literary gift is a mere accident--is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

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.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

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

Reason and instinct have an inveterate habit of cancelling each other out.