English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Lytton Strachey Quotes

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Lytton Strachey

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? Carol Vorderman
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. Arthur M. Schlesinger
Doug Coupland quote: "Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive."
Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive. Doug Coupland
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived. Howard Thurman
Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good. Will it buy you forgiveness. Do you think that it could. I think you will find. When your death takes its toll. All the money you made. Will never buy back your soul Bob Dylan
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it. Jose Saramago
Bill Shoemaker quote: "Desire is the most important factor in the success of any..."
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. Bill Shoemaker
Rhonda Byrne quote: "Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can."
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can. Rhonda Byrne
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want. Paul Taylor
I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment. Robin Gibb
I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character. Guy Pearce
I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure. Colin Hanks
Victor Hugo quote: "As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great..."
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. Victor Hugo
John Cheever quote: "I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted..."
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. John Cheever
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. Fred Woodworth