Synonym Great Quotes by Philip Guedalla

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

— Philip Guedalla

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

— Philip Guedalla

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

— Philip Guedalla

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

— Philip Guedalla

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

— Philip Guedalla

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

— Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

— 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.

— Philip Guedalla

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

— 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…

— Philip Guedalla

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

— Philip Guedalla

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

— Philip Guedalla