Victorian Quotes · Page 4

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

— Dylan McDermott

“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.”

— Will Thomas

“By the close of the Victorian age Britain’s officer classes were increasingly the inheritors, rather than the winners, of empire.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

— James Agate

In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.

— Roger Rees

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

— Ashley Montagu

“This is the Victorian era," she said. "Women didn't have to make sense.”

— Connie Willis

“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?”

— Charles Dickens

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was…

— Ricky Gervais

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply…

— Margaret Atwood

“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“a tidy Folk Victorian, two stories, bright blue, and dotted with windows. A picket fence framed a postage-stamp yard, within which a…

— Marcus Sakey

People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland - in fact only a tiny…

— Michael Rosen

“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the…

— Erica Sehyun Song

Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and…

— Justin Cartwright

“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful…

— Erica Sehyun Song

I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One…

— Ashley Jensen

I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think…

— Robert Fisk

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never…

— David Cannadine

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

— Patti Smith

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as…

— Sinclair Lewis

I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we…

— Alan Green

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school…

— John Galliano

While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really…

— Randy Lerner

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I…

— Jennifer Egan

“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?”

— Erica Sehyun Song

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

— A. N. Wilson

Materialists' is a kind of Victorian romance, because it's about the marriage market, the way that they always are.

— Celine Song

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

— Susan Hill

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

— P. G. Wodehouse

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

— Danny Boyle

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

— Stella Gibbons

“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string”

— Virginia Woolf

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

— Rod Serling

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

— Mason Cooley

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

— Bari Weiss

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

— Alicia Witt

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

— Fred Tomaselli

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

— Britt Ekland

“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew…

— G.K. Chesterton