Victorians Quotes
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Victorians Quotes & Sayings
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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
Always respect your superiors, if you have any.
— Kinky Friedman
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
Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
— Kate Williams
That's how the rich stay rich, ain't it? They didn' need it, but they didn' mind a bit more.
— Robert Galbraith
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— Teresa Mummert
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
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
My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
— Laila Ali
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
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, they sounded like two solicitous Victorians talking about sex.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.
— Malcolm D. Lee
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
— Laurie Graham