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Lytton Strachey
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“... Voltaire ... The great potentate of the eighteenth century has suffered cruelly indeed at the hands of posterity. Everyone, it is true, has heard of him; but who has read him? It is by his name that ye shall know him, and not by his works. With the exception of his letters, of Candide, of , and a few other of his shorter pieces, the vast mass of his productions has been already consigned to oblivion.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Landmarks in French Literature (1912), ch. 4.
“[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: "Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" With an air of noble virtue:] "I would try to get between them.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Robert Graves Good-bye to All That (1929), ch. 23.
“If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey (1967–68) Vol. 2, part 2, ch. 6.
“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.”
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source