Philip Guedalla Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

Saji Ijiyemi

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Rules are for the stupid, the clueless, those who cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

Jared Dillian

#6. The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

Philip Guedalla

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

Philip Guedalla

#8. The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

Philip Guedalla

#9. Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Philip Guedalla

#10. I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can't choose one. I would like to go back to New Zealand to see more of what it has to offer.

Martha Hunt

#11. The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Philip Guedalla

#12. Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Philip Guedalla

#13. Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Adrian Tan

#14. If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon

T. Harv Eker

#15. People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Philip Guedalla

#16. With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. 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

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

Philip Guedalla

#20. I'm not concerned. You can date and marry and have babies with your muffin-lady, if that's what you want."

His eyes held mine, and his expression softened and heated up at the same time. "You said you didn't want to go out with me, so all I'm left with is my muffin-lady.

Noelle Adams

#21. If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

Alice Cooper

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

Philip Guedalla

#23. This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.

Edgar Lee Masters