Quotes about Victorian era

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It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's hills and rivers, t — K.W. Jeter, Infernal Devices
Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves dry.We will g — Matthew Arnold, The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed wi — George Augustus Sala, Twice Round the Clock, or the Hours of the Day and Night in London
The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering. — Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House
I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within. — Hope Barrett, Discovering Oscar
An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully. — James Ruddick, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
The woman was not what would be termed an exquisite, or what his grandfather’s generation would have styled ‘a diamond o — Cara McKinnon, Essential Magic
What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?""I would think an infamous rake would already know.""I was never infa — Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake
It's a sin.""How do you know?""Because it feels like one," she managed to say.He laughed quietly and pulled her hips far — Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake
You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife.""His widow," Devo — Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake
You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways. — Stacy Reid, The Duke's Shotgun Wedding
You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation o — Moriah Densley, Song For Sophia
Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock! — Katherine Givens, In Her Dreams
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to — Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required — Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as — Walter Hamilton, The Aesthetic Movement In England
One character all messages had in common was vague generality. "Fly away with me," a tussie-mussie might suggest, but ne — Geraldine Adamich Laufer, Tussie-Mussies: The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers
In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection an — Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
With a heart of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander:With a burning spear,And a horse of air,To the wilderness I wander — Tom O'Bedlam
The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again. — Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart