Max Beerbohm Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956
Birthday: August 24
Death: May 20
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
