Adam Maunder

“To slur and sully, to belittle and drag down—that was what the world always tried to do.”
― Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

“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. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilisation. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost—he becomes just an unit in unreason.”
― Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

“It is easier, as Michelet suggested, for a woman to change her opinion of a man than for him to change his opinion of himself.”
― Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

“digging through her purse airily as though she’d misplaced a memory.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End