Skip to main content

History does not repeat itself...

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Great men are but life-sized. ...

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

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

Incongruity is the mainspring ...

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The hospitable instinct is not...

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Beauty and the lust for learni...

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied....

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The past is a work of art, fre...

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The Non-Conformist Conscience ...

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

To give and then not feel that...

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

There is much to be said for f...

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

It is a part of English hypocr...

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Improvisation is the essence o...

Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

There is in the human race som...

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Pessimism does win us great ha...

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Men prominent in life are most...

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

You cannot make a man by stand...

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

For people who like that kind ...

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

The literary gift is a mere ac...

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

Not that I had any special rea...

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Only the insane take themselve...

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Max Beerbohm 108 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

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...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

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...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

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....