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

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

By Max Beerbohm
How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls.

By Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

By Max Beerbohm
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

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

By Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

By Max Beerbohm
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

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

By Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

By Max Beerbohm
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

By Max Beerbohm
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

By Max Beerbohm
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

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

By Max Beerbohm
Nobody ever died of laughter.

By Max Beerbohm
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

By Max Beerbohm