Best Victorian Quotes
95 Victorian quotes by 87 unique authors
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Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined…
— J. Christopher Herold
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Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".
— Russell Brand
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted,…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like -…
— Neil Gaiman
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I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.
— Britt Ekland
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Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic…
— Stephen Moyer
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If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join…
— Unknown Author
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My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures…
— Lori Earley
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In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those…
— Gore Vidal
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Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would…
— C. E. M. Joad
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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
— Gunnar Myrdal
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When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not…
— Leland Ryken
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There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have…
— John Landis
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...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have…
— Olive Ann Burns
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
— Lytton Strachey
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It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for…
— Chris Patten
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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
— Nicolas Roeg
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We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic…
— Ken Follett
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London…
— Alan Bradley
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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
— Stephen Gardiner
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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play…
— D. A. Carson
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You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do…
— Peter Wolf
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If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the…
— Ricky Gervais
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In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it…
— Kathryn Lindskoog
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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
— Annie Lennox
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