Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedallawas a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." He also was the originator of a now-common theory on Henry James, writing that "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"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth12 March 1889
The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.
An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.