Strachey Quotes

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. - Lytton Strachey

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. - Lytton Strachey

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke. - Lionel Strachey

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. - Lytton Strachey

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. - Lytton Strachey

Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery. - Chad Allen

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. - 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. - 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 and civilization. - Lytton Strachey