Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Birthday #Years #Born
“Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Mind #Littles #Virginity
“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Humorous #Men #Doe
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Men #Fool
“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Watches #Why Not #Poor
“Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Long #Add #Machines
“It depends on each and every one of me.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
“A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Clever #Charming #Models
“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 part never occurred to Tree.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Simple #Play #Tree
“God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#God #Men #Trying
“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#God #People #Royalty
“The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Sports #People #Racing
“Every man is a potential genius until he does something.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Men #Doe #Genius
“When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Idols #Names #Letters
“The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Men #Idols #Spoilt
“She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Sex #Way #Platonic
“Cynicism is the humor of hatred.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Hatred #Cynicism
“A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Work #Men #Two
“He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Sarcastic #Graves #Bores
“A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.”
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Ignorance #Criticism #Language

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