Baby Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Fred Tomaselli

“More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language was already…

— Ben Crystal

When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs.…

— Faith Salie

My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy…

— Paula Poundstone

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

— A. N. Wilson

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has…

— Ellen Glasgow

Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6.

— Suzanne Pleshette

Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of…

— C. Sommerville

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some…

— Robert McCloskey

Everybody had nicknames when I was a kid.

— Soupy Sales

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

— Holly Near