Quote by Max Beerbohm
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – 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

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Conformity
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. – Max Beerbohm

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Gifts
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. – Max Beerbohm

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Beauty
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when were children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether theyre scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, its pretty much in the eye of the beholder. – Stephen King

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith

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There is no torture that a woman would not endure to enhance her beauty. – Michel de Montaigne

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Beauty is not just physical. – Halle Berry

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There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. – George Berkeley

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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. – Wilbur Wright

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My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of todays music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. – Roberta Flack

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