Victorian Quotes

95 quotes by 87 authors

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to… — Julian Assange
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for… — Margaret Atwood
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like… — Adele
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and… — Helena Bonham Carter
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the… — Ellen Glasgow
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian… — Sadie Frost
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an… — Patti Smith
The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also… — Lavinia Greenlaw
Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who… — Peter George Peterson
I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died… — Connie Willis
I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — Margaret Thatcher
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger
Verbosity was an established Victorian trait. — Matthew Engel
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of… — Robert Bringhurst
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's… — Georgina Chapman
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with… — John Fowles

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