48 Quotes by Lytton Strachey

It is not the historian's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them . . . dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior motives.

In France particularly, under the strong and brilliant government of Francis I, there was an outburst of original and vital writing.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

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

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.