Quotes from Philip Guedalla

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Alfred the Great] possessed the supreme military virtue of willingness to be taught by the enemy.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

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

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.