British history Quote by A. N. Wilson

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

— Fred Tomaselli

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their…

— Robertson Davies

Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some…

— Charles Kennedy

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat.…

— David Cannadine

“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we encounter historical…

— John Bowen

The big part of that Victorian era, particularly in Canada, was people being more cultured and not being in the colonies and barbaric. It…

— Yannick Bisson

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and…

— Ted Baillieu

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

— Simon Heffer

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

— H. L. Mencken

“One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different…

— Neal Stephenson

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic…

— Lewis B. Smedes