Victorian Quotes

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

— Matthew Engel

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

— John Green

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

— Eoin Colfer

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

— Charles Palliser

The Victorian Age was very stimulating, historically impressive.

— Prunella Scales

“Steampunk is Victorian science fiction”

— G.D. Falksen

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

— Annie Lennox

My humor was Victorian - and still is.

— Mort Sahl

“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was…

— Erica Sehyun Song

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they…

— D. A. Carson

“That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.”

— Kirsty Logan

Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

— James Watkins

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

— Margaret Thatcher

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

— Ralph Nader

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

— Sarah Waters

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

— Kevin McCloud

“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

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

I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist.…

— James Bobin

“I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our…

— Erica Sehyun Song

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era…

— Terry Pratchett

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue…

— Dustin Yellin

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long…

— Ken Follett

Most cities are eclectic. There's a bit of medieval, Georgian, some Victorian and some 20th century. That's fine. Bath is different because…

— Ken Loach

I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a…

— Gore Vidal

“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian…

— Sara Sheridan

If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo…

— Hermann Broch

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be…

— C. E. M. Joad

What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,…

— Gail Carriger

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine…

— Lori Earley

“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations…

— Hugh Lamb

Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."…

— Jane Jacobs

“There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Many wild foods have their charms, but the dearest one to my heart - my favorite fruit in the whole world -…

— Sarah A. Chrisman

“I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to…

— Wilkie Collins

“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to…

— Bill Bryson

“This was all strictly run-of-the-mill Victorian patter, striking only for the fact that a man who had so exerted himself to see…

— Philip Gourevitch