20 Quotes by Philip Guedalla

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

[Alfred the Great] possessed the supreme military virtue of willingness to be taught by the enemy.

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

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 I, James II, and the Old Pretender

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

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.

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

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