Victorian Quotes (page 2)

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• good
• wellness
• busy

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large. Chris Patten

• fire
• world
• correction

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. H. P. Lovecraft

• moving
• work
• book

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 C. Smith

• wishes
• time
• look

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

• history
• victorian era
• histories

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. Annie Lennox

• life
• little
• character

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books. Simon Callow

• time
• movie
• film

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense. John Landis

• innocent
• old
• property

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. Malcolm Bradbury

• growth
• city
• influence

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. Danny Boyle

• bridge
• house
• old

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

• dirty
• reality
• business

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. Ralph Nader

• time
• writing
• organizer

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. Julian Assange

• silence
• kids
• corner

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. Adele