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Letter "M" » Max Beerbohm Quotes
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«Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.»
«A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.»
«The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end»
«There is always something rather absurd about the past»
«By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry»
Author: Max Beerbohm
(Wit, Writer)
| About:
Emotion,
Poetry
| Keywords:
evoking, looseness, magnificent, suggesting
«After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak»
«Every kind of writing is hypocritical»
«The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends»
«You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself»
«It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.»
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