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

Quote by Philip Guedalla

Topics: Biography Quotes

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...

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.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

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...

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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...

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.

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

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

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.