Victorian Society Quotes

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