In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it. — Ashley Montagu 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
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.” — James Ruddick Copy Share Image
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies… — Alan Bradley 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
“As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite… — George Augustus Sala Copy Share Image
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. — Alicia Witt 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 ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As a curator, I've met endless people who feel a 'special connection' with Anne Boleyn, or Victorian prostitutes, or various other unlikely… — Lucy Worsley 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
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
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
The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
