Epigrams Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English…

— Stuart Hall

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

— Robert Reich

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 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

My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things…

— Jarvis Cocker

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

— Fred Tomaselli

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

— A. N. Wilson

“No political system ever perfectly expresses the needs of its society. No society in the English colonies constructed political arrangements completely faithful to itself.”

— Robert Middlekauff

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

“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

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

— Ben Kingsley