Creative Quotations from . . .
Max Beerbohm
(1872-1956) born on Aug 24
English "essayist, caricaturist, parodist". "The Incomparable Max wrote many elegant essays; the novel "Zuleika Dobson" 1911, and a pictorial volume of caricatures."
 
   
F
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

R
"The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art."
A
"The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends."
N
Have you ever noticed there is never any third act to a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there.
K
"I know of 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."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""More," 'Going back to School.'"
R: ""Seven Men," 'Enoch Soames.'"
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."



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