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No fine work can be done with...

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

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

A crowd, proportionately to i...

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The literary gift is a mere a...

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde...

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Of course we all know that Mo...

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The loveliest face in all the...

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Has the gift of laughter been...

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

True dandyism is the result o...

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

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

For a young man, sleep is a s...

For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

You cannot make a man by stan...

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Fate weaves the darkness, whi...

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

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Men prominent in life are mos...

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

I have known no man of genius...

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.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

People are either born hosts ...

People are either born hosts or born guests.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The delicate balance between ...

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

When hospitality becomes an a...

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Some people are born to lift ...

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

To say that a man is vain mea...

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

It seems to be a law of natur...

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.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

I need no dictionary of quota...

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....