Herbert Beerbohm Tree famous quotes

05-17-2025

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Birthday #Years #Born
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Mind #Littles #Virginity
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Humorous #Men #Doe
A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Men #Fool
My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Watches #Why Not #Poor
Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Long #Add #Machines
It depends on each and every one of me.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Clever #Charming #Models
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.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Simple #Play #Tree
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.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#God #Men #Trying
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#God #People #Royalty
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.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Sports #People #Racing
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Men #Doe #Genius
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Idols #Names #Letters
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Men #Idols #Spoilt
She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Sex #Way #Platonic
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Hatred #Cynicism
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Work #Men #Two
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Sarcastic #Graves #Bores
A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Ignorance #Criticism #Language

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