People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

—Max Beerbohm

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About Max Beerbohm

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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he...

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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

—Max Beerbohm

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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

—Max Beerbohm

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

—Max Beerbohm

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More quotations tagged with “breakfast”

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Life… is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

—Douglas Adams

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

—Marlene Dietrich

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My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

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For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

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