Memorable Quotes and quotations from Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey English biographer (1880 - 1932)


Lytton Strachey - in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
- Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians (1918)
- 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.