The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey 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
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Nothing defined the latter half of England's Victorian age more than the way in which Darwin's claims shook the collective faith of… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite… — George Augustus Sala Copy Share Image
“I know more about Emily Bronte than anyone I know. I know enough about her family to have been a part. I’ve… — Chila Woychik 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 been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
“Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.” — Mary Pope Osborne 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
“Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cunt-struck,' the… — Hanne Blank 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
“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
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Richard Francis Burton was a British consul, Orientalist, explorer, best known today for translating the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra into… — Michael Rank Copy Share Image
