Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey was a prominent English biographer and critic, known for revolutionizing the art of biography with his innovative and irreverent approach. A key figure in the Bloomsbury Group, he gained fame for "Eminent Victorians," which offered piercing insights into Victorian society. Strachey's works are celebrated for their wit, psychological depth, and elegant prose, marking a significant departure from traditional hagiographic biographies of his time.
Book summaries for books written by Lytton Strachey
Quotes
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
The world is not a place on which one can turn one’s back.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Napoleon is the god of war and of the world.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
The wretchedness of the poor is not as having too little, but as having too much.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The most virtuous of women will always be the most tender of mothers.
A good autobiography is so rare as truth.
The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences.
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.