Quote#Self
[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had…
Quote byLytton Strachey · 1880–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Robert Graves Good-bye to All That (1929), ch. 23..
English (original)
[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: "Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" With an air of noble virtue:] "I would try to get between them."
— Lytton Strachey
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