Max BeerbohmThinkers

Admiration is a glorious obliquity of vision.

Caricature is best when it can, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerate, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

A City is necessarily bustling. A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

A Crowd is, proportionately to its size, magnifying of all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

Dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Death is an event that cancels all engagements.

Englishman is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry by its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying.

Fantasy should always have a solid base in reality.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

Genius is not a quick judge of character.