Late Victorian Quotes

#1. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

Fanny Howe

#2. During the late Victorian period, one English woman in Hampshire who suffered from fits reportedly ate an entire New Testament in an attempt to cure her illness, putting each page in the middle of a sandwich.

Martyn Lyons

#3. They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the Great War, then a few monolithic sculptures representing Ideal Virtues (Patriotism, Respect for Authority, the Dutiful Wife).

Jonathan Stroud

#4. Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Richard Flanagan

#5. The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.

Sarah Gavron

#6. In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

Mason Cooley

#7. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else.

Jojo Moyes

#8. The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.

Richard Luckhurst

#9. They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.

Grant Allen

#10. My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Winston Churchill

#11. You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

Adam McKay

#12. For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.

Robert B. Weide

#13. The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

Rick Warren

#14. Every time she allowed her gaze to wander to the group at the piano, she found Lord Wentworth's eyes on her. In the end it was easier to study the patterns in the ornate rug on which her chair sat. She was glad when the evening ended.

Susan Leona Fisher

#15. Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#16. Maybe to her destiny was "something"; that was none of his business. But to him, destiny was "someone.

Fredrik Backman