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It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed det...

Lytton Strachey

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed det...

Tags: chaos, detail, discipline, order, will

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

Lytton Strachey

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

Tags: history, know, too much

About Author
Giles Lytton Strachey (; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Tags: books, reading

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Lytton Strachey

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Tags: happiness

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace...

Lytton Strachey

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace...

Tags: peace, action, place

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Tags: religion

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

Lytton Strachey

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

Tags: death, dying