"It depends on each and every one of me."

--

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

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.”
“The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language, so you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
“In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or vice versa. I mean there was all this back and forth, and there was a lot of opposition in Black America to slavery in Cuba in particular, because slavery in Cuba lasted until the 1880s.”

Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net
“The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.”
“I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?”
“My Facebook page confuses a lot of people. I'll post a BeyoncÃ© Knowles song, and, people are like, "What are you doing?! This is bullshit," and I'm like, "No! BeyoncÃ© is the Linda Ronstadt of our day, you don't understand!"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”

You may also like:

Aubrey Beardsley
Author
Ellen Terry
Actress
Evelyn Waugh
Writer
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
George du Maurier
Cartoonist
Max Beerbohm
Essayist
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Actress
Oliver Reed
Actor
Oscar Wilde
Writer