"There is something dark and wintry about the……" — Lytton Strachey

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

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28 Quotes by Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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