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Lytton Strachey quotes: Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Lytton Strachey quotes: Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Lytton Strachey quotes: It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Lytton Strachey quotes: Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey quotes: Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Lytton Strachey quotes: A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile

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

Lytton Strachey quotes: The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey quotes: Avuncular authority. In an abrupt, an almost peremptory letter, he laid his case,

Avuncular authority. In an abrupt, an almost peremptory letter, he laid his case,

Lytton Strachey quotes: How on earth does she make the English language float and float?

How on earth does she make the English language float and float?

Lytton Strachey quotes: It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Lytton Strachey quotes: There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Lytton Strachey quotes: When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.

When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.

Lytton Strachey quotes: With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

Lytton Strachey quotes: There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

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

Lytton Strachey quotes: Voltaire abolished Christianity by believing in God.

Voltaire abolished Christianity by believing in God.

Lytton Strachey quotes: Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Lytton Strachey quotes: How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

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

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

Lytton Strachey quotes: If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

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

Lytton Strachey quotes: There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.