Frases de Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm, pseudônimo de Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm foi um parodista e caricaturista inglês.

N. John Hall escreveu uma biografia sobre Max Beerbohm, de nome "A Kind of Life”, Yale University Press. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Agosto 1872 – 20. Maio 1956   •   Outros nomes Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm Frases famosas

“Existe muito mais coisa para ser dita sobre o fracasso. Ele é muito mais interessante do que o sucesso.”

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success
"Mainly on the air"‎ - Página 34, Sir Max Beerbohm - A. A. Knopf, 1946 - 142 páginas

“Nenhum trabalho de qualidade pode ser feito sem concentração e auto-sacrifício, esforço e dúvida”

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
"And even now, and A Christmas garland‎" - Página 64, Parte 68 de Dutton everyman paperback, Autor Sir Max Beerbohm, Editora Dutton, 1960, 275 páginas

“Um homem presunçoso está simplesmente satisfeito com o efeito que produz nos outros. Um homem vaidoso está satisfeito com o efeito que produz em si próprio.”

A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
"And even now, and A Christmas garland‎" - Página 114, Sir Max Beerbohm - Dutton, 1960 - 275 páginas

Max Beerbohm: Frases em inglês

“The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.”

Fonte: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV

“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.”

No. 2, The Pines (1914)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."”

Fonte: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IX

“He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.”

Fonte: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. VII

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

"1880" (1895) from The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/twomb10.txt

“The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”

"A Note on George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=NA0HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+NonConformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA250#v=onepage The Yellow Book (October 1894)
"King George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=OvlGAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Nonconformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)

“He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.”

Fonte: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. III

“There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.”

Max Beerbohm livro Mainly on the Air

"Fenestralia" http://books.google.com/books?id=YZMhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, Mainly on the Air (1946), The Atlantic ( April 1944 http://books.google.com/books?id=5KAGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA85#v=onepage)

“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.”

Quia Imperfectum (1920)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”

Note to the 1946 edition
Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911)

“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”

Fonte: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IV