"It is probably always disastrous not to be…" — Lytton Strachey
"It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet."
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28 Quotes by Lytton Strachey
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- Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a…
- If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
- Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
- The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into…
- Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is…
- The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with…
- Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
- The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
- How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely…
- Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in…
- English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure…
- But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet…
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