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.

His legs, perhaps, were shorter than they should have been.

‘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.