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- A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like 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… — Sugata Mitra
- Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend… — 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… — Unknown Author
- The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience… — Thomas Szasz
- Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.… — 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,… — 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… — Anthony Hopkins