Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes

• I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

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  Birthday, Years, Born

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• Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

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  Mind, Littles, Ifs

  To a motley collection of women, assembled to play ladies in waiting to a queen, in Alexander Woollcott 'Shouts and Murmurs' (1923) 'Capsule Criticism'

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• Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

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  Men, Doe, Genius

  "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.

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• The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

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  Men, Idols, Spoilt

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• A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

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  Men, Fool, Knows

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

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• I'll have that one, please.

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  Funny, Humor, Please

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• A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

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  Clever, Charming, Models

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• She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.

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  Sex, Way, Like Her

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• As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

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  Simple, Play, Tree

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

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• A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

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  Trabajo, Hombres, Dos

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

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• People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

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  God, People, Royalty

  Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1916). “Nothing Matters, and Other Stories”

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• God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

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  God, Men, Trying

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• Cynicism is the humour of hatred

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  Hatred, Cynicism, Humour

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

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• Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

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  Hatred, Cynicism

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• When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

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  Idols, Names, Letters

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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• It depends on each and every one of me.

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  Depende

  "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 192), 1956.

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• The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

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  Sports, Home, People

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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• Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

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  Humorous, Men, Doe

  "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.

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• Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

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  Long, Add, Machines

  When pressed by a gramophone company for a written testimonial, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 19; Beerbohm later insisted 'the immortalism must stand' when asked to make amendments

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• My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

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  Watches, Why Not, Poor

  To a man in the street, carrying a grandfather clock, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 12

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• A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

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  Ignorance, Criticism, Language

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• Es un viejo aburrido. Hasta la tumba bosteza por él.

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  Sarcastic, Graves, Bores

  In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4

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