Discretion is not the better part of biography.Lytton Strachey
In the search for truth human beings take this, that, or the other road.Lytton Strachey
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Lytton Strachey
What was remarkable was a peculiar moral aroma that hailed from around her, and that impressed itself upon her daughter's mind.Lytton Strachey
But if an opinion did happen to form itself within him, he clung to it obstinately.Lytton Strachey
Biography... must hover close upon the secret chambers; if it stays outside, in the antechamber, the result is bound to be either trivial or false.Lytton Strachey
Cardinal Manning ruled his diocese with a rod of iron, and yet it must be acknowledged that he possessed many of the qualities of a great ruler.Lytton Strachey
She, whose fiery and imperious soul never sustained a moment's subjection, put up patiently with such indignities.Lytton Strachey
She understood that it is not given to every one to know the truth and to act upon it at one and the same time.Lytton Strachey
One thing is very certain: his greatness was no result of qualities which he possessed in excess of other men.Lytton Strachey
It is not too much to say that he embodied in a singular degree the characteristic qualities which are supposed to mark the British race.Lytton Strachey
For a man to go through life with an abiding consciousness of the most fundamental of all relations, the relation between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal, the human and the divine.Lytton Strachey