# Max Beerbohm

- Quotes: 18
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## Books

- [Zuleika Dobson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-beerbohm/zuleika-dobson.md) — 18 quotes

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> Death cancels all engagements.

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> He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

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> Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

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

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> One has never known a good man to whom dogs were not dear; but many of the best women have no such fondness. You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes — possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.

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> Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

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> All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

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> The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

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> Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

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> She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.

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> Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

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> Just as "pluck" comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.

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