History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

- 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

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

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

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

- 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

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

- Philip Guedalla

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

- Philip Guedalla

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

- Philip Guedalla