There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
Max BeerbohmWhat a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
Max BeerbohmTo give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max BeerbohmThe critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
Max Beerbohm