Philip Guedalla quotes
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“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians"
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“The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : 1943 The Two Marshals.
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“I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”
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“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”
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“Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”
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“Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”
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“Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : 'Masters and Men' (1923) 'Ministers of State'
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“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 GuedallaSource : Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)
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“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”
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“The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.”
-- Philip GuedallaSource : Quoted in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Omnibus of Crime (1929)
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“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.”
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“People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.”
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“The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.”
-- Philip Guedalla
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