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…

— 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,…

— 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

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled…

— Philip Guedalla

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

— Philip Guedalla

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and…

— Philip Guedalla