22 Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes

Herbert Beerbohm Tree quotes

1. People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

2. Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

3. My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

4. Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

5. Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

6. Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

7. It is difficult to live up to one's posters:When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

8. A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

9. As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

1. She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.

2. He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

3. The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

4. It depends on each and every one of me.

5. A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

6. Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

7. A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

8. I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

9. I'll have that one, please.

10. The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

11. God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

12. A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

13. Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.