Age Quote by Prunella Scales Download Open image “The Victorian Age was very stimulating, historically impressive.” — Prunella Scales ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Stimulating Very Victorian Victorian age
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 Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it,… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean the show's been rather a success. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not very good… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
The people you learn most from are the audiences, which is why I'm always best on my last night. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
In 1940 my mum took a job as under-matron at her old school, which had been evacuated from Eastbourne to Windermere; I got a… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
In our profession if you've got an ugly mark or there's anything that cosmetic surgery can do for you I think it's absolutely fine.… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
When I had started commuting into London for theatre school, I'd had to sell my uncle's stamp collection for £300. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
I'd love to play Constance in 'King John' or Paulina in 'The Winter's Tale.' I'd like to go on working till I drop. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
