More from Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  1. People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
  2. My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?
  3. Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
  4. Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.
  5. Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
  6. 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 …
  7. A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.
  8. 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…

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