Victorian Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Victorian

Victorian Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Victorian quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. — John Green

It's all so un-Victorian. — Caroline Kepnes

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". — Russell Brand

You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison. — Orna Ross

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

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully. — James Ruddick

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering. — Christopher Fowler

Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity. — Bruce Robinson

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth. — R.E. Vance

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood

Weird that a house so new could feel haunted, and not in the romantic Victorian-novel way, just really gruesomely, shittily ruined. — Gillian Flynn

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. — Ralph Nader

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since. — Lisa Kleypas

A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord. — Teresa Flavin

It's elementary, my dear Winifred. — Miss Mae

I once courted a Victorian lass in old Chicago. I had to leave her, it just wasn't our time. — Dennis Higgins

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. — Oscar Wilde

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 person. — Dawn French

Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations. — Jonathan Haidt

A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture. — Kat Daughtry

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction — G.D. Falksen

She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I'd rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move. — A.F. Stewart

You're not worried about being compromised, are you?" he asked. "Because I've already done that. — Lisa Kleypas

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder. — Susan Hill

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

He looked like how Victorian Romantic poets looked just before the consumption and drug abuse really started to cut it. — Terry Pratchett

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society".
"If society were really decent, he would have been — George Gissing

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

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

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease. — Rod Serling

It is inner duty, not outer achievement, that wins peace. — Orna Ross

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts. — Sandra Byrd

Oh, Ed!" Mom exclaimed. "It's a Victorian. — Robert Liparulo

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession. — Jeff Lindsay

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man's name. — Tamara Hughes

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

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

Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you. — Emilie Autumn

Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house. — Steven Gaines

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation. — Martin Edwards

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis

The roof was a gymnasium for the winds — Thomas Hardy

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny. — Nancy B. Brewer

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live. — Oscar Wilde

We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words. — Orna Ross

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. — Alicia Witt

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

The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright. — Harry Treadaway

A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician. — Orna Ross

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait. — Matthew Engel

Beauty was a weapon as well, one Viola enjoyed wielding. — Katherine McIntyre

Was it possible to be homesick for a soul? — Jessica Dotta

well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen, — Susan Kandel

Tess was carried along the wings of the hours — Thomas Hardy

No book is written; it's always re-written — Jean Fullerton

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons. — Tamara Hughes

I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me. — Chris Karlsen

Tea no more! Down with bustles! — Nancy Moser

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. — Charles Palliser

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey

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

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

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator. — Eula Biss

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous. — Margaret Atwood

He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall. — Orna Ross

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham

That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy. — Kirsty Logan

Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow. — Will Thomas

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am. — Margaret Thatcher

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her beauty. — Naomi Wolf

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it. — Ashley Montagu

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H.L. Mencken

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker. — Trevanian

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

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment. — Orna Ross

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us. — Mason Cooley

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve. — Tamara Hughes

Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober. — Connie Willis

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours. — Sarah Waters

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian? — Eoin Colfer

Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life. — Orna Ross

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists."
"That could have happened to anyone! — Lisa Kleypas

I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you. — Sandra Byrd

You're like a picture; you ought to be enclosed in a gilt frame and stand against the wall. — Henry James

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us. — Mary Pope Osborne

the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In — Sebastian Faulks