Lytton Strachey Quotes

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie...

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, wh...

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

If this is dying I don't think much of it.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -...

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.