Book · 1918 · Nonfiction

Eminent Victorians

Name: Eminent Victorians
Author: Lytton Strachey

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 288 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Four Victorian idols go under Strachey's scalpel: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, the headmaster Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon at Khartoum. The malice is so elegant that English biography never went back to reverence.

Genre

Biography History

Subject

Hypocrisy

Setting

England (United Kingdom)

Time

1918Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)

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Quote · 60

“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

Jesus

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“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.”

John Milton