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Philip Guedalla

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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.


— Philip Guedalla


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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.


— Philip Guedalla


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Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.


— Philip Guedalla


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


— Philip Guedalla


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


— Philip Guedalla


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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


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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.


— Philip Guedalla


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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.


— Philip Guedalla


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


— Philip Guedalla


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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.


— Philip Guedalla


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About Philip Guedalla






Did you know about Philip Guedalla?

Despite the boost the Liberals had received in the run-up to the 1923 general election with the reunion of the Lloyd George and Asquithian wings of the party Guedalla was unable to gain Derbyshire North East and fell to the foot of the poll behind the Conservatives. However in the summer of 1931 an economic crisis led to the formation of a National Government led by prime minister Ramsay MacDonald supported by a small number of National Labour MPs and initially backed by the Conservative and Liberal parties. In 1919 he married Nellie Maude Reitlinger the daughter of a banker.

His wit and epigrams are well-known one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface" another being "History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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