The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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
In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old. — Roger Rees 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
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
I would watch every single Victorian romance possible. If you are in a corset, I'll watch it. It's one of those genres… — Celine Song 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
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton 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
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue… — Dustin Yellin 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
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
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
“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
The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“By the close of the Victorian age Britain’s officer classes were increasingly the inheritors, rather than the winners, of empire.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon 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
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist.… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering… — Sara Sheridan 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
“Merkin had used only one drop of the “just soap.” Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of… — Marion Bailey 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
“Generally speaking, it is injudicious for ladies to attempt arguing with gentlemen on political or financial topics. All the information that a… — Samuel Orchart Beeton Copy Share Image
I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and… — Val Kilmer 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
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