Deals Quote by Margery Allingham

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

“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we encounter historical…

— John Bowen

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

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

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

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 am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

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

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

— Gunnar Myrdal

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

— A. N. Wilson

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

— Winston Churchill

The classic literature is always modern.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton