Frasi di Max Beerbohm
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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

“Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.”

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

“Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.”

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

“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Hosts and Guests (1918), Harper's Monthly ( August 1919 http://books.google.com/books?id=H2Q2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Mankind+is+divisible+into+two+great+classes+hosts+and+guests%22&pg=PA425#v=onepage)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.”

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

“Death cancels all engagements.”

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

“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”

Books Within Books (1914)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

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