The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber 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
“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
“He unzipped the nylon case, and inside was a discolored frame that smelled like smoke. A thin layer of soot covered the… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. — James Agate Copy Share Image
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era… — Terry Pratchett 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
“Go find your own hiding spot!” I hissed. “The seat is not wide enough to hold me and that whale you call… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Yes, if you lace your corset up as snugly as is humanly possible, it will undoubtedly impede your breathing and make you… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Sunlight streamed in a steady flow, casting flecks of gold onto the floor, bathing my skin. I inhaled deeply. Already, the air… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
