Lionel Strachey quotes

“The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.”
-- Lionel Strachey

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“To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.”
-- Lionel Strachey

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“One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.”
-- Lionel Strachey

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“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

Source : The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”

“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.”

Source : Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”

“I am against the death penalty.”

“The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.”

Source : Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

“Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]”