Victorians Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the… — Margery Allingham
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Kurt Vonnegut
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for… — Sugata Mitra
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists. — Fulton J. Sheen
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer… — D. J. Taylor
The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication,… — Thomas Szasz
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow… — Malcolm Bradbury
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. — Ford Madox Ford
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one… — Anthony Hopkins
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and… — H P Lovecraft
Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be… — Mercedes Lackey
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir. — Laurie Graham
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over… — Ted Baillieu

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