Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. - Philip Guedalla
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
- Philip Guedalla
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success. - Philip Guedalla
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. - Philip Guedalla
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. - Philip Guedalla
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history. - Philip Guedalla
The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. - Philip Guedalla
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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
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.
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
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
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. - Philip Guedalla
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
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