Adam Maunder

“One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally.”
― 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

“In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsafe to make a simple and direct statement.”
― Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

“Yes, it would look like she was smuggling an ostrich with a tarp on it into a motel room, but this also looked like the type of establishment to not particularly judge for that sort of thing.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End