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

Quote by Philip Guedalla

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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south...

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south...

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

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

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

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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...

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who...

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who...