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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
Work
Doubt
Self
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
Women
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm
Men
Genius
People
Character
Deep
Instinct
Judges
Quick
Thinking
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.
Max Beerbohm
Nature
Law
Man
Obvious
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
Max Beerbohm
Eyes
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
Fantasy
Reality
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm
Worth
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
Personality
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Max Beerbohm
Nonsense
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
Virtue
Guests
Humility
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
Genius
Gods
Affliction
Man
Spiritual
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
Soul
Eyes
Quotations
Windows
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm
Night
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
Laughter
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Max Beerbohm
Will
Words