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