The Victorians made tiepins out of badgers’ penis bones…

“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious…

— Gillian Flynn

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking…

— Michel Faber

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

— Ford Madox Ford

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised…

— Charles Murray

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”

— Christopher Fowler

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

“God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people…

— Sugata Mitra

“In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.”

— Pamela Horn

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later…

— Lev Grossman

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

— T. H. White

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

— Dan Simmons

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.

— Laurie Graham

If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do…

— Joan Rivers