To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm
She was one of those people who said I dont know anything about music, but I know what I like. – Max Beerbohm
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. – Max Beerbohm
The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau