I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.” — Anonymous 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
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition. — Sal Khan 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
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
As a curator, I've met endless people who feel a 'special connection' with Anne Boleyn, or Victorian prostitutes, or various other unlikely… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of… — Marion Bailey Copy Share Image
“Merkin had used only one drop of the “just soap.” Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education,… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange 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
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy 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
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I’d rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move. ” — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you… — Moriah Densley 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
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey 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
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal 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 reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
