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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/biography-is-a-very-definite-region-bounded-on-the-north-by-history/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

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## More by Philip Guedalla

> [People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/people-who-jump-to-conclusions-rarely-alight-on-them/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/i-had-always-imagined-that-clich-was-a-suburb-of-paris-until-i/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/any-stigma-as-the-old-saying-is-will-serve-to-beat-a-dogma/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/the-detective-story-is-the-normal-recreation-of-noble-minds/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/any-stigma-will-do-to-beat-a-dogma/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/autobiography-is-an-unrivaled-vehicle-for-telling-the-truth-about/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/history-repeats-itself-historians-repeat-each-other/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/biography-like-big-game-hunting-is-one-of-the-recognized-forms-of/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/greatness-is-so-often-a-courteous-synonym-for-great-success/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/biography-is-a-very-definite-region-bounded-on-the-north-by-history/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/the-preface-is-the-most-important-part-of-a-book-even-reviewers-read/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/success-is-little-more-than-a-chemical-compound-of-man-with-moment/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/the-lord-chief-justice-of-england-recently-said-that-the-greater-part/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/the-crimean-war-is-one-of-the-bad-jokes-of-history/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

> [The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guedalla/the-work-of-henry-james-has-always-seemed-divisible-by-a-simple/)

[Philip Guedalla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guedalla/)

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