“God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic. — T. H. White Copy Share Image
“In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.” — Pamela Horn Copy Share Image
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to determine precisely how many Victorians were dependent on the drug, but since millions used it on a daily… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.” — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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