Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Quote by Max Beerbohm

Topics: Humility Quotes, Virtue Quotes

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of...

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of...

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt...

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt...

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some...

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some...

People are either born hosts or born guests

People are either born hosts or born guests

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows...

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful,...

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful,...

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity...

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works,...

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works,...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of...

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what...

Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what...

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To...

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language