Victorians Quotes

“The Victorians made tiepins out of badgers’ penis bones.   Some”

— John Lloyd

'The Victorians' show is like no TV I've done.

— Miquita Oliver

“God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the…

— Joan Rivers

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

— Simon Heffer

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

— Ford Madox Ford

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took…

— Lev Grossman

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their…

— Dan Simmons

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”

— Christopher Fowler

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in…

— Laurie Graham

I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know,…

— Gillian Flynn

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors…

— D. J. Taylor

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing…

— Sugata Mitra

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population…

— Charles Murray

“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to…

— Gillian Flynn

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There…

— Robertson Davies

“It is impossible to determine precisely how many Victorians were dependent on the drug, but since millions used it on a daily…

— David Morrell

“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed…

— A.S. Byatt

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

— T. H. White

“In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.”

— Pamela Horn

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were…

— Michel Faber

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock