Lytton Strachey Quote

It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them... dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.


Preface. - Eminent Victorians (1918)


It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them......

It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them......

It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them......

It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them......