People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm

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

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm

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

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm

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

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

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm

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

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm

You will find my last words in the blue folder.
Max Beerbohm

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Max Beerbohm