The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. -Lytton Strachey History
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 Peace
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 War