"Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."
— Max Beerbohm

"In three words I can sum up everything I know about life:It goes on"
— Max Beerbohm

"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: An Oxford Love Story)