Generation Quote by Charles Kennedy

I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught…

— Margaret Thatcher

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

— A. N. Wilson

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat.…

— David Cannadine

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and…

— Ted Baillieu

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

— Margaret Thatcher

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their…

— Robertson Davies

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”

— Christopher Fowler

The big part of that Victorian era, particularly in Canada, was people being more cultured and not being in the colonies and barbaric. It…

— Yannick Bisson

“One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different…

— Neal Stephenson

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which…

— Margery Allingham

“Britain is no longer ‘Thatcherite’, though in the aftermath of ‘Brexit’, it may even be worse. The need to temper British imperial nostalgia with…

— Shashi Tharoor

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

— Fred Tomaselli