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Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
— Lytton Strachey
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
— Lytton Strachey
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
— Lytton Strachey
I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won't stand the same from another man?
— Magda Alexander
I love you, she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.
— Matt Haig
I am so screwed.
— Paul Emil
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
— Lytton Strachey
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
People don't like when they can't figure you out. When you're too quiet. It scares them.
— Lisa Henry
I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.
— Melissa Auf Der Maur
And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.
— Mufti Ismail Menk
How on earth does she make the English language float and float?
— Lytton Strachey
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
— Lytton Strachey
One Man's Hero, Another Man's Villain..Sometimes in the same Man.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
— Lytton Strachey
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
— Wendy E. Long
A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile
— Lytton Strachey
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
— Lytton Strachey
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
If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
— Lytton Strachey
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
— Lytton Strachey
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.
— Lytton Strachey
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
— Leonard Woolf
Voltaire abolished Christianity by believing in God.
— Lytton Strachey
If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food.
— William H. Whyte
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
— Lytton Strachey
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
— Lytton Strachey
Engineering is a fantastic base for any career.
— Chris Liddell
