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

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Lytton Strachey

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. Maria Monk
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels. Aleister Crowley
I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future. Alexander Downer
Johnny Rotten quote: "I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20..."
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. Johnny Rotten
Orhan Pamuk quote: "Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to..."
Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. Orhan Pamuk
Jilly Cooper quote: "I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is..."
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. Jilly Cooper
You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight. Brett Hull
most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory Arthur Miller
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end. Salman Rushdie
I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know. Dannii Minogue
Ayn Rand quote: "Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a..."
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. Ayn Rand
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East. Amy Tan
Plautus quote: "Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know."
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know. Plautus
Nicholas Culpeper quote: "Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign..."
Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending. Nicholas Culpeper
John Lothrop Motley quote: "For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but..."
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. John Lothrop Motley