Philip Guedalla Quotes

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

  Philip Guedalla

  War, Bad Jokes, Jokes

  1943 The Two Marshals.

  6 Copy quote

• History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

  Philip Guedalla

  Funny, Education, Humor

  Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians"

  10 Copy quote

• People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

  Philip Guedalla

  People, Conclusion

  8 Copy quote

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

  Philip Guedalla

  Dogma, Beats, Old Saying

  'Masters and Men' (1923) 'Ministers of State'

  11 Copy quote

• The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

  Philip Guedalla

  Book, Important, Reviewers

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “The Missing Muse”

  6 Copy quote

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

  Philip Guedalla

  Book, People, Telling The Truth

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Easter, Fiction, Biographies

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Sports, Hunting, Games

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Punishment, Justice, Sides

  4 Copy quote

• The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

  Philip Guedalla

  Mind, Detectives, Normal

  Quoted in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Omnibus of Crime (1929)

  8 Copy quote

• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

  Philip Guedalla

  Greatness, Great Success, Synonym

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

  12 Copy quote

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

  Philip Guedalla

  Men, Littles, Chemicals

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

  8 Copy quote

• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

  Philip Guedalla

  Oxford, Paris, Streets

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Simple, Reign, Three

  Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)

  17 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin