Enoch Soames Quotes

“The reading-room?"
“Of the British Museum. I go there every day.”
“You do? I've only been there once. I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. It—it seemed to sap one's vitality."
"It doe. That's why I go there. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.”
― Max Beerbohm, Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

“Κανένας που δεν έχει χάσει τη ματαιοδοξία του δεν μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ότι έχει αποτύχει τελείως.”
― Max Beerbohm, Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

“- En la Vida y en el Arte -dijo- lo que importa es un final inevitable”
― Max Beerbohm, Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

“It was Milton,” he certificatively added, “who converted me to diabolism.”

“Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?” said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. “You—worship the devil?”

Soames shook his head. “It’s not exactly worship,” he qualified, sipping his absinthe. “It’s more a matter of trusting and encouraging.”
― Max Beerbohm, Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties