Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Lytton Strachey (British Biographer)

Giles Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) was a British writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
Lytton Strachey

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
Topics: Historians, History

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