“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.”
“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
“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“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
Lytton Strachey“If this is dying I don't think much of it.”
Lytton Strachey“Discretion is not the better part of biography.”
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“A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile”
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.”
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