“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.” — Christopher Fowler 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“In the Victorian era a curious belief was prevalent that sovereign states ought to have governments that were reasonably efficient and solvent.” — Byron Farwell Copy Share Image
“Parishioners will welcome the assurance, if news of changes and experiments has come their way, that no such changes are contemplated in… — England Beeston Parish Paper (Nottingham 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
“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
“[W]e took turns removing each other's underwear and I thanked God for twenty-first century clothing. Until you've attempted to undress a Victorian… — Gene Doucette 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
“I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
