Victorian Quotes · Page 6

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

— A. N. Wilson

“Many wild foods have their charms, but the dearest one to my heart - my favorite fruit in the whole world -…

— Sarah A. Chrisman

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has…

— Tom Peters

I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the…

— Toby Young

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that…

— John Fowles

“It's elementary, my dear Winifred.”

— Miss Mae

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

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around…

— Adele

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

— Mason Cooley

“That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.”

— Kirsty Logan

“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

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

— Margaret Thatcher

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

— Susan Hill

“The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if…

— Erica Sehyun Song

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of…

— Alastair Reynolds

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

— Charles Palliser

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times.…

— Helena Bonham Carter

“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

The big part of that Victorian era, particularly in Canada, was people being more cultured and not being in the colonies and…

— Yannick Bisson

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in…

— Colm Toibin

“And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a…

— Charles Dickens

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".

— Russell Brand

“Love was something he had banished from his life years ago out of necessity, but she made him yearn to be loved.”

— Stacy Reid

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

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