Max Beerbohm Quotes

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956

Topics

GreatSayTwoGuestsMankindWell

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

Andy Cohen

TimeChefGoTopOnlyBeen

None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't make music so you could go check out Sam Cooke.

Robert Glasper

MusicPurposeYouGoJazzOut

Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.

Robert Gottlieb

SpringParentsMeGlassRunNothing

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Stanley Hauerwas

PowerProblemYouPowerfulKindGot

The jig is up: I'm not a nice lady.

Michelle Wolf

LadyNiceUpJig

Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

Josie Loren

GirlSchoolPeopleHigh SchoolHigh

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson

RainManCowAverageStanding

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

Claudio Ranieri

GoodTeamThoughtImportantBuild

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

Annie Leibovitz

GoodPeopleCelebrityNeverLike

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

BetterAlwaysThan

One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.

Powers Boothe

CitySingingSongSinSameSeem

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Phil Hartman

MeGlassesWigHeadNoseDisappear

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