Philip Guedalla Quotes

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

History repeats itself, first as history, then as farce.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

History is a picture gallery where there are few originals and many copies.

I think history is just so cyclical.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

Even historians with knowledge of the event, and with the materials before them on which to form a judgment, see but little way into the causes and consequences of the great events in human history.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.