Clarity Quote by Lytton Strachey

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

— Lytton Strachey

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same…

— Lytton Strachey

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

— Lytton Strachey

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of…

— 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…

— Lytton Strachey

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other…

— Lytton Strachey

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

— Lytton Strachey

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

— Lytton Strachey

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,…

— Lytton Strachey