Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Philip Guedalla Quotes

Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
English Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 12, 1889
Date of Death:
December 16, 1944
Nationality:
English
Find on Amazon:
Philip Guedalla

Related Authors:
Edward Gibbon
Thomas B. Macaulay
Anita Brookner
John Keegan
James Anthony Froude
G. M. Trevelyan
Henry James Sumner Maine
John Acton

 
Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla

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

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

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Philip Guedalla

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


Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com