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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
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
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
