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

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

- Philip Guedalla

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

- Philip Guedalla

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

- Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

- 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

- 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.

- 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