10 Quotes by Philip Guedalla
- History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
- Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
- The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
- Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
- People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
- Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
- Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
- Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
- Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
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