Age Quote by Anonymous

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than…

— R. H. Tawney

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are ambassadors of American style, but we're in awe of British style.

— David Lauren

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion…

— Matt Haig

“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor…

— Mary McCarthy

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

— A. N. Wilson

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens

I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of…

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

— Robertson Davies

I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion…

— Donatella Versace