[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
“He unzipped the nylon case, and inside was a discolored frame that smelled like smoke. A thin layer of soot covered the… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate I was able to live at least a few years of my life in the tort of opulent… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all… — John Landis Copy Share Image
'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele Copy Share Image
“Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
“Go find your own hiding spot!” I hissed. “The seat is not wide enough to hold me and that whale you call… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian… — James Laver Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and… — Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p184 Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
![“[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.” quote by Morley Safer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/edb/morley-safer-17896_auntie_the-bbc-was-known-as-auntie-suggesting-s_689701.png)
![“The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness…” quote by Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/960/camille-paglia-652_british_the-sexual-harassment-situation-has-gott_2595601.png)
![“---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and perceptively of his times than most writers then were. In his vigilant response to 19th century preoccupations, he anticipated--often critically--many 20th century…” quote by Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p184](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00b/cedric-watts-a-preface-to-conr_conrad_in-his-major-phase-he-conrad-was-ahead-o_3044204.jpg)
