Impossible Quote by Connie Willis

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

“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious…

— Gillian Flynn

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

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

— T. H. White

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

— Charles Palliser

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 experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental…

— Marilyn Frye

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

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which…

— N. K. Jemisin

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was…

— Anthony Horowitz

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage…

— Jacqueline Novogratz