Appealing Quote by Peter Capaldi

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?

— Deborah Harkness

If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They…

— Katie McGrath

I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd be saying…

— Sara Pascoe

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical…

— James Welch

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

— Hubert de Givenchy

When I was younger, we'd stay at stately homes, and at the end of dinner, women would have to leave the table. I used…

— Catherine Oxenberg

I would have liked the old days.

— David Wells

You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde Kostiff riding around on her bicycle…

— Manolo Blahnik

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was…

— William Jackson

I would have loved to have been Henry VIII; I would have been big and fat and no one would have cared.

— John Barnes

I'd been travelling in Romania. It was 1990, just after the revolution and you couldn't buy anything so we'd been eating basic food. We…

— Lee Mack