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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Read full biography of Lytton Strachey → 1 2 Ctrl → During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the... → 0 Discretion is not the better part of biography. 0 The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was... → 0 Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection... → 0 The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the... → 0 Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her... → 0 When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly... → 0 The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in... → 0 There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. 0 Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. 0 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, to... → 0 When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into... → 0 In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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