Meant Quote by Charles Palliser Download Open image “Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.” — Charles Palliser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meant Often People Poor Values Victorian Were Who
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 Copy Share Image
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.” — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent — Plato Copy Share Image
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow’s rear end.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
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Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night. — Pauline Frederick Copy Share Image
I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school. — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school,… — Kevin Plank Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because:… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
