Philip GuedallaThinkers

The 20th century is only the nineteenth speaking with a slightly American accent.

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

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.

Biography is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is unfair as only sport can be.

An Englishman is a man who lives on an island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen.

The Historian is rather interesting when it repeats itself, though historians are not.

History is the study of other people's mistakes.

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

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