Lytton Strachey Famous Quotes
"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For 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."
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey Quotations
"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
Fulton John Sheen
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Bernard Shaw
"When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists."
Harry Stack Sullivan
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm
"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'"
Earl Warren
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Gore Vidal
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.
Raynor Schein
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S Patton
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
William Blake