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Strachey, Lytton
1880–1932
1880–1932
1
Francis Bacon…was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.
chairman of military tribunal
: What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?
strachey
: I would try to get between them.
otherwise rendered as, "I should interpose my body"
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.
on his deathbed
Francis Bacon…was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.
Elizabeth and Essex
(1928) ch. 5
chairman of military tribunal
: What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?
strachey
: I would try to get between them.
otherwise rendered as, "I should interpose my body"
Robert Graves
Good-bye to All That
(1929) ch. 23
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey
vol. 1 (1967) preface
If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.
on his deathbed
Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey
vol. 2 (1968) pt. 2, ch. 6
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Lord
1593–1641
1593–1641
1
The authority of a King is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government which, once shaken, all the frame falls together in a confused heap of foundation and battlement.
The authority of a King is the keystone which closeth up the arch of order and government which, once shaken, all the frame falls together in a confused heap of foundation and battlement.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Historical Essays
(1952) "The Outbreak of the Great Rebellion"
Strauss, William L.
and
Cave, A. J. E.
and
Cave, A. J. E.
1
Notwithstanding, if he could be reincarnated and placed in a New York subway—provided that he were bathed, shaved, and dressed in modern clothing—it is doubtful whether he would attract any more attention than some of its other denizens.
of Neanderthal man
Notwithstanding, if he could be reincarnated and placed in a New York subway—provided that he were bathed, shaved, and dressed in modern clothing—it is doubtful whether he would attract any more attention than some of its other denizens.
of Neanderthal man
in
Quarterly Review of Biology
Winter 1957
Straw, Jack
1946–
1946–
1
It's not because ageing wrinklies have tried to stop people having fun. It's because…these so-called soft drugs are potentially very dangerous.
asserting his opposition to the legalization of cannabis
It's not because ageing wrinklies have tried to stop people having fun. It's because…these so-called soft drugs are potentially very dangerous.
asserting his opposition to the legalization of cannabis
on
Breakfast with Frost
, BBC1 TV, 4 January 1998
Street-Porter, Janet
1946–
1946–
1
A terminal blight has hit the TV industry nipping fun in the bud and stunting our growth. This blight is management—the dreaded Four M's: male, middle class, middle-aged and mediocre.
A terminal blight has hit the TV industry nipping fun in the bud and stunting our growth. This blight is management—the dreaded Four M's: male, middle class, middle-aged and mediocre.
MacTaggart Lecture, Edinburgh Television Festival, 25 August 1995
Strindberg, August
1849–1912
1849–1912
1
Family!…the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
Family!…the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
The Son of a Servant
(1886)
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