Lytton Strachey Quotes

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

Johnson’s aesthetic judgements are almost invariably subtle, or solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend them – except one: they are never right.

Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.

‘Before she came,’ said a soldier, ‘there was cuss in’ and swear in’, but after that it was ’oly as a church.’ The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.

The time was out of joint, and he was only too delighted to have been born to set it right.