English - Actor | August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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People are either born hosts or born guests.
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
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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.
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
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