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In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.
— Pamela Horn
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
— Ford Madox Ford
The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.
— Christopher Fowler
Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.
— Jill Soloway
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
— Stephen Kinzer
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
— Kate Williams
Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs.
— David McRaney
At least you died and went to heaven
— Nicole Williams
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
— Charles Lamb
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.
— Simon Heffer
The Victorians, for instance, couldn't get five minutes' peace without falling over a ghost. So what has changed? Have all the spectres left town?
— Jan-Andrew Henderson
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
— Karen Elson
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
— Lytton Strachey
The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
— T.H. White
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Ending lending is beginning winning.
— Mark Kostabi
The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation.
— Fareed Zakaria
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
— Stephen Leacock
God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon