Frasi di Max Beerbohm

Henry Maximilian Beerbohm è stato uno scrittore e caricaturista inglese.



✵ 24. Agosto 1872 – 20. Maggio 1956   •   Altri nomi Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm
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“Molte donne non sono così giovani per come si sanno truccare.”

da A Defense of Cosmetics, 1895

“Il passato è un'opera d'arte, senza elementi incongrui né sbavature.”

da Mainly on the Air, 1946

Max Beerbohm: Frasi in inglese

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

Origine: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV

“I have known 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.”

No. 2, The Pines (1914)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."”

Origine: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IX

“He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.”

Origine: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. VII

“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”

"1880" (1895) from The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/twomb10.txt

“The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”

"A Note on George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=NA0HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+NonConformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA250#v=onepage The Yellow Book (October 1894)
"King George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=OvlGAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Nonconformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)

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

Origine: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. III

“There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.”

Max Beerbohm libro Mainly on the Air

"Fenestralia" http://books.google.com/books?id=YZMhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, Mainly on the Air (1946), The Atlantic ( April 1944 http://books.google.com/books?id=5KAGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA85#v=onepage)

“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”

Quia Imperfectum (1920)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”

Note to the 1946 edition
Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911)

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

Origine: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IV

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