Victorian Quotes
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Victorian Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.
— Bruce Robinson
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
Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.
— Jonathan Haidt
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
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
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
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
The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.
— Harry Treadaway
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
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
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
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
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've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
— Olivier Theyskens
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
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
