Logo
Quote by Max Beerbohm
The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspi

The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm

Other quotes by Max Beerbohm

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. – Max Beerbohm

Category:
Conformity
Author
Max Beerbohm
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Greatness & Great Things
category

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus

Category:
Greatness & Great Things

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Greatness & Great Things

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Greatness & Great Things

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

Category:
Greatness & Great Things

Random Quotes

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians – Bible

Category:
Kindness

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. – Mirabel Osler

Category:
Gardens

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson

Category:
Sanity

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. – Arthur Erickson

Category:
Beauty