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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

Rules are part of our lives. Only children and fools believe they're immune. — Ellen Hopkins

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy. — Albert Camus

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

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

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. — J.G. Ballard

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

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

Love is the illusion you get in the mids of infatuation and happiness. — Tia Clark

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

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