Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unat…

- Lytton Strachey

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is e…

- Lytton Strachey

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

- Lytton Strachey

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

- Lytton Strachey

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

- Lytton Strachey

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

- Lytton Strachey

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

- Lytton Strachey

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

- Lytton Strachey

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

- Lytton Strachey