“ Is there, he asked with a bitter smile, any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson? Nobody held up a hand. As I feared, said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up… Max Beerbohm
“ Κανένας που δεν έχει χάσει τη ματαιοδοξία του δεν μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ότι έχει αποτύχει τελείως. Max Beerbohm
“ I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster. Max Beerbohm
“ But the dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Max Beerbohm
“ Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system. Max Beerbohm
“ You wondered even when you heard that he was wont at Oxford to make without help his toilet of every day. Well, the true dandy is always capable of such high independence. He is craftsman as well as a… Max Beerbohm
“ The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him—some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself. Max Beerbohm
