“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
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
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
I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.” — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad,… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs… — Sandra Tsing Loh 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 Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no… — Kat Daughtry 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
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
“And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
“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
“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
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“All the carriages filed out in single file but in a fashion that seemed to mean that they were competing against each… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
