5 Max Beerbohm Quotes on Human nature

Max Beerbohm quotes on human nature

14. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

19. It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

29. In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

32. It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

33. 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.