“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla“Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.”
Philip Guedalla“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”
Philip Guedalla“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.”
Philip Guedalla“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”
Philip Guedalla“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.”
Philip Guedalla“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla