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
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 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
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
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith 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
People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland - in fact only a tiny… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry 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
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some… — Philip Reeve 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 Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb 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
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman 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
Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian… — James Laver Copy Share Image
“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations… — Hugh Lamb 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
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