I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. Sir Max Beerbohm | Dictionary of Quotes

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. Sir Max Beerbohm

23Nov2008 In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Quotations by Sir Max Beerbohm

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He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about. Winston Churchill
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. Sir Max Beerbohm
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Jean De La Bruyere
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. George Santayana
It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford. Dudley Ryder
Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable. Fran Lebowitz
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. Hirohito
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. W. Somerset Maugham

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