I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all… — John Landis Copy Share Image
“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the planet from… — Emmanuelle de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on… — R.E. Vance Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and… — Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p184 Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
