“You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.” — Stacy Reid Copy Share Image
“An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.” — James Ruddick Copy Share Image
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.” — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Like steampunk, silkpunk is a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But while steampunk takes its inspiration from the chrome-brass-glass technology aesthetic… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
When I was younger, we'd stay at stately homes, and at the end of dinner, women would have to leave the table.… — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary idea that children have rights was born in the Enlightenment, but the practical application of that concept, in schools and… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
“Lucille, please make them go away!” she moaned, her voice muffled. “Do you think I am a divine being sent from the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The big part of that Victorian era, particularly in Canada, was people being more cultured and not being in the colonies and… — Yannick Bisson 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
“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“The temptation was too great to resist. Heart thundering madly, Teddy closed the distance and pressed his lips to hers. Her eyes… — Mimi Matthews Copy Share Image
“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“University of Otago social historian Hera Cook provides a beautiful illustration of exactly this point in her rich account of the sexual… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
“I had discovered the recipe in a book in the basement just last week, had devoured its advice and warnings about beauty,… — Mindy Friddle Copy Share Image
“What the hell is this stuff?" he muttered, frowning at the oily spot on the linen cloth. "Pearlman slathered it on me… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“IN THE TORRID London summer of 1886, William Gladstone was up against Benjamin Disraeli for the post of prime minister of the… — Olivia Fox Cabane Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the… — Jack Weatherford 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
“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song 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
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King 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
“One character all messages had in common was vague generality. "Fly away with me," a tussie-mussie might suggest, but never "Meet me… — Geraldine Adamich Laufer Copy Share Image
“Go find your own hiding spot!” I hissed. “The seat is not wide enough to hold me and that whale you call… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can… — David Autor Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
