Philip Guedalla Quotes

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

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

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

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The little ships, the unforgotten Homeric catalogue of Mary Jane and Peggy IV, of Folkestone Belle, Boy Billy, and Ethel Maud, of Lady Haig and Skylark…the little ships of England brought the Army home.
On the evacuation of Dunkirk

Philip Guedalla
Autobiography—that unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

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

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Of Stanley Baldwin Government's attitude to the League of Nations:
There they sit, like inverted Micawbers, waiting for something to turn down.

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Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

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History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.

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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.

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The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.

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