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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

Protection is not a principle but an expedient — Benjamin Disraeli

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

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees. — Christopher Strachey

I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health. — Voltaire

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

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

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can. — Christopher Strachey

Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,how to be a good husband & father. — Srinivas Shenoy

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff. — Paul McCartney

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

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

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever. — Christopher Strachey

Sometimes I worry I don't want to get married as much as I'd like to be dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. — Maria Bamford

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Are you a risk? Usually when you leave me, you just take my heart. That's the biggest risk of all, I'd say. — Meredith Wild

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

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. — Alexander Woollcott

Jesus is what God looks like in sandals — John Dominic Crossan

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

God holds the three keys; life, wealth and honour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

What better place to kill time than a library? — Diane Setterfield

Voltaire abolished Christianity by believing in God. — Lytton Strachey

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

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Here's the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief. — David Mitchell

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