"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
Topic(s):
Sympathy
More From Max Beerbohm
- "People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table."
- "It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
- "As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."
More In Sympathy
- "I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."― Aneurin Bevan
- "One often calms one’s grief by recounting it."― Pierre Corneille
- "My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."― Brownie McGhee