The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
“The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance, letting the wind… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
“Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-' 'Darcy and I'm… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that… — Margaret Halsey 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
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking. — Perfume Genius 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
“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'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
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down. — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we… — Margaret Thatcher 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
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
In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old. — Roger Rees 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
