I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
“I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
“She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I’d rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move. ” — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I would watch every single Victorian romance possible. If you are in a corset, I'll watch it. It's one of those genres… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You know this is wrong." It isn't a question. When he turns, White is still wrapped snug in the counterpane, motionless, just… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
“This was all strictly run-of-the-mill Victorian patter, striking only for the fact that a man who had so exerted himself to see… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Many wild foods have their charms, but the dearest one to my heart - my favorite fruit in the whole world -… — Sarah A. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
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