Best Victorian Sayings

95 Victorian quotes by 87 unique authors

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. — Freddie Mercury
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. — Ralph Nader
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you… — Terry Pratchett
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well… — Terry Pratchett
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive… — George Edward Woodberry
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the… — Anthony Burgess
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous,… — Stephen King
Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian? — Eoin Colfer
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it… — Kurt Vonnegut
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim,… — Tana French
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons
Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you. — Emilie Autumn
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design… — Connie Willis
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. — John Green
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest… — Gail Carriger
There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as… — David Rakoff
Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her.… — Libba Bray
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten… — Dustin Yellin
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks… — Sugata Mitra

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