Quotes by : Lytton Strachey

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

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

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies,....

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie....

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict....

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -....