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Zuleika Dobson QUOTES

Zuleika Dobson QUOTES

1 " I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

2 " You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

3 " One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

4 " Death, as he had said, cancelled all engagements. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

5 " But the loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly, eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

6 " Our hero's unreasoning rage was fed by a not unreasonable jealousy. It was clear to him that Zuleika had forgotten his existence. To-day, as soon as he had killed her love, she had shown him how much less to her was his love than the crowd's. And now again it was only the crowd she cared for. He followed with his eyes her long slender figure as she threaded her way in and out of the crowd, sinuously, confidingly, producing a penny from one lad's elbow, a threepenny-bit from between another's neck and collar, half a crown from another's hair, and always repeating in that flute-like voice of hers: "Well, this is rather queer! "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

7 " Does the stag in his hour of victory need a diploma from the hind? "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

8 " The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him—some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

9 " I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

10 " From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had little charm for her. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

11 " He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

12 " A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

13 " You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes—possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

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

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

15 " She did not look like an orphan," said the wife of the Oriel don, subsequently, on the way home. The criticism was a just one. ... Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds. Her dark hair was not even strained back from her forehead and behind her ears, as an orphan's should be. Parted somewhere at the side, it fell in an avalanche of curls upon one eyebrow. From her right ear drooped heavily a black pearl, from her left a pink; and their difference gave an odd, bewildering witchery to the little face between. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

16 " If a man carry his sense of proportion far enough, lo! he is back at the point from which he started. He knows that eternity, as conceived by him, is but an instant in eternity, and infinity but a speck in infinity. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

17 " Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

18 " Not for an instant did he flinch from the mere fact of dying to-day…To die ‘untimely,’ as men called it, was the timeliest of deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness. What perfection could he, Dorset, achieve beyond what was already his? Future years could but stale, if not actually mar, that perfection. Yes, it was lucky to perish leaving much to the imagination of posterity. Dear posterity was of a sentimental, not a realistic, habit. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

19 " Here was he, going to die for her; and here was she, blaming him for a breach of manners. Decidedly, the slave had the whip-hand. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson

20 " You wondered even when you heard that he was wont at Oxford to make without help his toilet of every day. Well, the true dandy is always capable of such high independence. He is craftsman as well as artist. "

― Max Beerbohm , Zuleika Dobson