Philip Guedalla Citas

• The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

  Philip Guedalla

  War, Bad Jokes, Jokes

  1943 The Two Marshals.

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• Cualquier estigma, como dice el viejo refrán, servirá para vencer a un dogma.

  Philip Guedalla

  Dogma, Beats, Old Saying

  'Masters and Men' (1923) 'Ministers of State'

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• La Historia se repite. Los historiadores se repiten.

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  Divertido, Educación, Humor

  Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians"

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• La gente que saca conclusiones precipitadas rara vez acierta.

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  People, Conclusion

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

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  Book, Important, Reviewers

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “The Missing Muse”

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

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  Book, People, Telling The Truth

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• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

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  Deportes, Caza, Juegos

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• La biografía es una región muy definida que limita al norte con la historia, al sur con la ficción, al este con la necrológica y al oeste con el tedio.

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  Easter, Fiction, Biographies

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• El Lord Chief Justice de Inglaterra dijo recientemente que la mayor parte de su tiempo judicial lo dedicaba a investigar colisiones entre vehículos de propulsión, cada uno en su lado de la carretera, cada uno haciendo sonar su claxon y cada uno parado.

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  Punishment, Justice, Sides

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• La novela policíaca es la recreación normal de las mentes nobles.

  Philip Guedalla

  Mind, Detectives, Normal

  Quoted in Dorothy L. Sayers, The Omnibus of Crime (1929)

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• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

  Philip Guedalla

  Greatness, Great Success, Synonym

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• El éxito es poco más que un compuesto químico del hombre con el momento.

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  Men, Littles, Chemicals

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

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  Oxford, Paris, Streets

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• 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

  Simple, Reign, Three

  Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)

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