“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
Lytton Strachey“The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.”
Lytton Strachey“It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.”
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“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.”
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians“It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”
Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex