Victorian Quote by Will Thomas

“Merkin had used only one drop of the “just soap.” Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops would have…

— Sorin Suciu

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

— Anonymous

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of…

— Ellen Glasgow

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…

— Bill Bryson

“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what…

— Neal Stephenson

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

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

Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian…

— Jonathan Trigell

I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed…

— Paul Di Filippo