Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

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.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.