Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends… — N. K. Jemisin 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
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate I was able to live at least a few years of my life in the tort of opulent… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them… — Sadie Frost 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
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
True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't… — Philip Reeve 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
“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
“Hello." The doctor speaks softly, nervously. Mr White doesn't respond, not even the slightest change of expression. Dr Archer has been thinking.… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be… — Aleksandra Mir 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
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
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed… — Charles Kennedy 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
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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 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 a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.” quote by Morley Safer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/edb/morley-safer-17896_auntie_the-bbc-was-known-as-auntie-suggesting-s_689701.jpg)
![“In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous [than sculptures and pictures] because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical…” quote by Kathryn Lindskoog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/209/kathryn-lindskoog-68049_angel_in-scripture-the-visitation-of-an-angel_2509407.jpg)
