Books Quote by Stephen Leacock

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

“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate…

— Ian Gregor

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

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

— Simon Heffer

“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

“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting…

— Margaret Irwin

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

— Fred Tomaselli

“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

“It was possible to explore the 'great tradition' of the English novel and believe that in doing so you were addressing questions of fundamental…

— Terry Eagleton

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”

— Christopher Fowler

There was a whole sequence of concept art about a 'Fable' set in a kind of steampunk Victoriana age.

— Peter Molyneux

“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a certain liking…

— Frank Harris