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Sensitive reader, start not at the apparition! Oxford is a plexus of anomalies.
~ Max Beerbohm
Byron!—he would be all forgotten to-day if he had lived to be a florid old gentleman with iron-grey whiskers, writing very long, very able letters to "The Times" about the Repeal of the Corn Laws.
~ Max Beerbohm
Echoes of his boots fell from the upper stairs and met the ascending susurrus of a silk skirt.
~ Max Beerbohm
Despite her dress, which was of a tremendous tartan, she diffused the pale authentic radiance of a spirituality most high, most simple.
~ Max Beerbohm
He despised himself for wishing to forget she despised him.
~ Max Beerbohm
She was a nymph to whom men's admiration was the greater part of life.
~ Max Beerbohm
such an air of sullen mourning as it had not worn since the Prussians marched to its Elysee.
~ Max Beerbohm
Perhaps, had Byron not been a dandy—but ah, had he not been in his soul a dandy there would have been no Byron worth mentioning.
~ Max Beerbohm
For this, Clio has abused me in language less befitting a Muse than a fishwife. I do not care. I would rather be chidden by Clio than by my own sense of delicacy, any day.
~ Max Beerbohm
Your mentality, too, is bully, as we all predicate. One may say without exaggeration that your scholarly and social attainments are a by-word throughout the solar system, and be-yond.
~ Max Beerbohm
Peerless, he was irresponsible—the captain of his soul, the despot of his future.
~ Max Beerbohm
The minds which one found in the pages of a book were understandable. But the minds of living men—how terrible they were! One
~ Max Brand
the doctor saw that the fire was still raging in the hollow breast of the cattleman, but there was no longer fuel to feed it.
~ Max Brand
his life. And Moore swears that you rode out
~ Max Brand
Also, a mob has no conscience and no remorse. It is the nearest thing to a devil that exists, and it is also the nearest thing to the divine mercy and courage. It
~ Max Brand
Denial is an irrational dismissal of danger. Phobia is an irrational fear of one.
~ Max Brooks
For starters, you must understand the inherent difference between a castle and a palace. A
~ Max Brooks
You would have entire suburban neighborhoods of upper-middle-class professionals, none of whom had possessed even the basic know-how to replace a cracked window.
~ Max Brooks
the Jaguar's pilot was ordered to execute "Shiva's Wrath." "Do you know what that means?" Raj-Singh
~ Max Brooks
Moo," she answered, which could only be taken for "Why not?
~ Max Brooks
PARNELL AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, TENNESSEE
~ Max Brooks
Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal
~ Max Brooks
why wouldn't destruction of the brain be the only way to annihilate these creatures? Isn't it the only way to annihilate us as well?
~ Max Brooks
Moo," called an approaching cow, its voice heavy with criticism.
~ Max Brooks