Lytton Strachey
Critic
1880-03-01
Quotes by Lytton Strachey
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A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile
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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
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When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
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(Reply when asked by a Tribunal what he, as a conscientious objector, would do if he saw a German soldier trying to rape his sister:) I should try to come between them.
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