Avoiding Quote by Ford Madox Ford

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

— Simon Heffer

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

— T. H. White

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

— Marion Bailey

“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than Romeo) as…

— Roger Allam

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

I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a…

— Wallace Shawn

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

— Fred Tomaselli

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

— Anonymous

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

— A. N. Wilson

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

— Claire Tomalin

“As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was “those ones,” or “the old ones,” though other terms…

— H.P. Lovecraft

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid…

— Emile Zola