TagMax Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm is best known for his novel, Zuleika Dobson. The book tells the story of a beautiful young woman who visits Oxford and causes chaos among the male students. Beerbohm was a prominent English essayist, caricaturist, and critic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also a member of the famous literary group, the Algonquin Round Table.

Unexplained Love

In Comedy, Fiction

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes—none knows whence—and cannot explain itself.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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End of Commitments

In Comedy, Fiction

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Death cancels all engagements.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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Emotional Logic

In Comedy, Fiction

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The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of.
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Romance Over Matrimony

In Comedy, Fiction

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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Subjective Beauty

In Comedy, Fiction

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Beauty, like supreme dominion, Is but supported by opinion.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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Personal Fate

In Comedy, Fiction

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A man’s fate is his own temper.
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Learning from Failure

In Comedy, Fiction

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

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Time’s Mystery

In Comedy, Fiction

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Time! Time! What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand—day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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Imaginative Foundation

In Comedy, Fiction

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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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Resentful Solace

In Comedy, Fiction

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The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson

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