Lytton Strachey Quotes

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.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

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

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 eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.