'The Victorians' show is like no TV I've done.

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

I've done a couple of series before, and what I like about TV is, as an actor, you get that chance to practice all…

— Meaghan Rath

I like to see what's on TV before I go to sleep.

— Marky Ramone

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on…

— Lauren London

I don't necessarily like being a TV personality, I just want to be an artist.

— Violet Chachki

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

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

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Stephen Leacock

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

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

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

— Christopher Fowler