
Tea no more! Down with bustles! —
Nancy Moser

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

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

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

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