Philip Guedalla Quotes

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

“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”

“The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st James 2nd and the Old Pretender.”

“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

“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.”

“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”

“CAME" - Crownless Ambition Must Emerge - Genereux Philip”

“The poem says you only think you’re alive but about to be born your radioactive heliographs mock the moon’s tongue.”— Philip Lamantia, “Fin Del Mundo”

“If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization”

“Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.”