Philip Guedalla

Philip Guedalla (12 March 1889 – 16 December 1944) was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer.

Quotes

 * History repeats itself: historians repeat each other.
 * "Some Historians," Supers & Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters (1920)


 * Autobiography&mdash;that unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
 * "Biographers and Their Victims," Debate with A. G. Gardiner at The London School of Economics (June 1923)