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
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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
Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen
I had always imagined that ClichT was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
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.
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.