70 Victorian Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history. Gail Carriger

Love Time History Science Writing Had Massive Because Always Era Led Lot Up Familiar Leg Interest Victorian

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. George Edward Woodberry

Art Age School Will Fall Painting Drama Distinctive Restricted Seems Examples Poetry Lifetime Schools Likewise Periods Within Limit Greek Often Spanish Victorian Century Sculpture Cycles Pope English Vigorous Serve Growth Two

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

Love Big Tradition Truthful Theater Victorian Bold

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. Helena Bonham Carter

People Sometimes Wish Whatever Those More Small Features Had Smaller Journalists Particular Look Calling Always Am Were Doll Versatile Edwardian Times Just Victorian Means Less Pale

I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society. James Bobin

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was. John Galliano

School Made Parents Sense Believe Too Other Way Bit Kids He Reminded School Kids Off Upbringing Just Different Whether Little Victorian Little Bit Certainly Dad Slap Right

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. John Irving

Me Animal Writing Made Long First Ancestors Those Plot Almost New Also Attraction Read New England Always Were Just Want Which Victorian England Novelist Novels Extinct

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly. Judith Flanders

Today You Think Astonishing Say Running Boston Horse Mentioned Horses No-One New Named Particularly Frequently Equivalent Odd Discovery Owners After Victorian Derby Ever Kentucky Imagine

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare. Judith Tarr

Church Rare Our Further Distorted Through Remarkably Toward Attitudes Reformation Depiction Fictional Victorian Lens Much Even Actual Slanted Medieval

Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression. Justin Cartwright

Memory Simple Three Few Older Settled Valley Some Houses Repression Place Notable Victorian Fleeing Streets Early Recent Two

Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine. Kate Williams

Christmas Passion Before White Machine Weddings Both Dates Were Huge Celebrations Times Victoria Victorian Low-Key Her Britain

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. Ken Follett

Free Long Dramatic Summary Tell Scene Write Felt Passages Whereas Stories Victorian Cutting Next Novelists Now

I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign. Kevin Kwan

Time Me Age Strict King Drawn Seems Empire Like Period Powers Always Were Been Edward Edwardian Decadence Victorian Height England Fascinating Reign British British Empire

Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English. Linda Colley

Home Rule Instance Simply Also Welsh Edwardian Ireland Irish Wanted Victorian Separate English Who Many Activists Round

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. Margaret Atwood

Harvard Subject Literature Victorian

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. Martin Cruz Smith

I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture. Mary Helen Bowers

Love Walls White Furniture Mixed Antique Victorian

With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian. Michael Dirda

People Mysteries Possible Must Eccentric Exception Merely Adventure Edwardian Fiction Victorian Fantasy View Reasonable Many Popular Fascination

My humor was Victorian - and still is. Mort Sahl

Humor Still Victorian

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur. N. K. Jemisin

Politics People Events Trends Developments Reaction Scientific Were Historical Which Victorian Ethical Series Specific Actual Technological

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. Nicolas Roeg

Old Had Like House Years Years Ago Pond Victorian Bridge Downs

Purpose has always been part of Unilever's DNA. Our founder, William Lever, built a business around the sale of Lifebuoy soap that was not only profitable and sustainable but also helped transform the health of the poor in Victorian Britain. Paul Polman

Health Business Our William Only Purpose Part Also Around Always Built Been Sale Sustainable Soap Transform Victorian Poor Helped Founder Profitable Lever Britain

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