I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre 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
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's… — Morley Safer 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
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
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
My own valuation moment: When I started 'Antiques Roadshow,' John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there… — Fiona Bruce 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
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom,… — John Battelle 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
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education,… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know… — Paterson Joseph 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
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
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