Quotes by Lytton Strachey

"A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile"
— Lytton Strachey
"It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet."
— Lytton Strachey
"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."
— Lytton Strachey
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Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 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 esta...