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Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
— Lytton Strachey
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
— Oprah Winfrey
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
— Lytton Strachey
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
— Lytton Strachey
A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights.
— Darmie Orem
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
— 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
You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.
— Christopher Strachey
The head of the photographer is more important than his camera
— Philippe Halsman
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
— Lytton Strachey
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
— Adelaide Anne Procter
I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.
— Brandon Sanderson
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
— Lytton Strachey
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
— Lytton Strachey
It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.
— Christopher 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
Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity ...
— Dean Karnazes
How on earth does she make the English language float and float?
— Lytton Strachey
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
— Lytton Strachey
It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
— Christopher Strachey
Voltaire abolished Christianity by believing in God.
— Lytton Strachey
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
— Lytton Strachey
When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade.
— Lytton Strachey
A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile
— Lytton Strachey
If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
— Lytton Strachey
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
— Lytton Strachey
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.
— Lytton Strachey
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
— Leonard Woolf
I have been vain since birth.
— Wallace Shawn