"Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art."

--

V. S. Pritchett

#Art Quotes #Max Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.”

Source : "Meet Hellcats Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.
“I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Feb 05, 2013
“I like routine. It enables me to improvise.”
“It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.”
“Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.”
“I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.”
“If you can't laugh at yourself or take any type of criticism or comment about yourself, I think it's more of a reflection of you.”

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