Max Beerbohm cytaty

Henry Maximilian Beerbohm – angielski eseista, pisarz satyryczny i rysownik-karykaturzysta.

Ukończył Uniwersytet Oksfordzki, gdzie należał do kręgu Oscara Wilde’a. W młodości podróżował po USA jako agent prasowy firmy teatralnej swojego brata. W 1896 roku opublikował pierwszą książkę, The Works of Max Beerbohm. Został krytykiem teatralnym tygodnika „Saturday Review” . Po roku 1935 występował w radiu BBC.

Najbardziej znane jego dzieło to Zuleika Dobson , powieść o studenckim życiu w Oksfordzie, jedyny utwór wydany w Polsce . Z kolei znane opowiadanie Enoch Soames mówi o poecie, który zawiera pakt z diabłem, by dowiedzieć się, jak zapamięta go potomność.

W 1939 roku pisarz otrzymał tytuł szlachecki. Wydał łącznie kilkanaście tomów prozy i liczne zbiory karykatur. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Sierpień 1872 – 20. Maj 1956   •   Natępne imiona Henry Maximilian Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm cytaty

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“The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.”

Źródło: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.”

No. 2, The Pines (1914)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."”

Źródło: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IX

“He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.”

Źródło: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. VII

“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”

"1880" (1895) from The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/twomb10.txt

“The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”

"A Note on George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=NA0HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+NonConformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA250#v=onepage The Yellow Book (October 1894)
"King George the Fourth," http://books.google.com/books?id=OvlGAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Nonconformist+Conscience+makes+cowards+of+us+all%22&pg=PA63#v=onepage The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)

“He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.”

Źródło: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. III

“There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.”

Max Beerbohm książka Mainly on the Air

"Fenestralia" http://books.google.com/books?id=YZMhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, Mainly on the Air (1946), The Atlantic ( April 1944 http://books.google.com/books?id=5KAGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA85#v=onepage)

“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”

Quia Imperfectum (1920)
And Even Now http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/evnow10.txt (1920)

“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”

Note to the 1946 edition
Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911)

“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”

Źródło: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IV