The Victorian Era Quotes
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The Victorian Era Quotes & Sayings
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The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
— Dylan McDermott
He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?
— Erica Sehyun Song
The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.
— Christopher Fowler
There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
— Teresa Flavin
The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.
— Teresa Flavin
Abigail had no interest in the dolls themselves. Only in what she could keep from them.
— Christie Stratos
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
— Sarah Waters
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
— Hugo Claus
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.
— Jonathan Auxier
She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.
— Margaret Atwood
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
— Marco Brambilla
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
— Winston Churchill
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times.
— Sandra Cisneros
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.
— Erica Sehyun Song
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not ... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.
— Erica Sehyun Song
Then I wish you a good day," Accord said. He managed to make it sound like fuck you, the way people in the Victorian era might have.
— Wildbow
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society".
"If society were really decent, he would have been — George Gissing
"If society were really decent, he would have been — George Gissing
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
— Nick Offerman
In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.
— Jodi Picoult
She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.
— Lynn Coady
I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.
— Chris Karlsen
Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!
— Katherine Givens
I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
— Kellyn Roth
Was it possible to be homesick for a soul?
— Jessica Dotta
Love makes things possible, not easy.
— Sam Gayton