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
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
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. — Alicia Witt Copy Share Image
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if… — 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
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais 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
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
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful… — Bill Bryson 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
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs 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 two of us locked up our own little secrets from the real world. We had experienced countless sleepless nights when we… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks… — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down. — Britt Ekland 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
Materialists' is a kind of Victorian romance, because it's about the marriage market, the way that they always are. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder. — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.” — Will Thomas 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
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
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