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
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
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
“Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber 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
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave 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
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 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
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times.… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“Many wild foods have their charms, but the dearest one to my heart - my favorite fruit in the whole world -… — Sarah A. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You know this is wrong." It isn't a question. When he turns, White is still wrapped snug in the counterpane, motionless, just… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
