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Philip Guedalla
English
Historian
About the author
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#History
#Historians
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.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#History
#Fiction
#Biography
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.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#Work
#Old
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#Success
#Man
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#People
Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#Will
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#Biography
#Hunting
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#People
#Truth
#Autobiography
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#Will
#Saying
#Old
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla,
English
Historian
#Success
#Greatness