Quotes About Victorian Britain

#1. Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

Bill Bryson

#2. Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Michael Dirda

#3. Roses are red, violets are blue,
This room's a psycho shopping zoo.
The fashion's a disaster, the mirrors are large,
And somebody left a crazy lady with needles in charge.

Debora Geary

#4. There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

#5. If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Maxwell Maltz

#6. From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

Orson Scott Card

#7. In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Haruki Murakami

#8. I've come to appreciate other people's talents.

Howard Stern

#9. Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

Marianne Williamson

#10. Tina hit that tingle in the back of his head, the fuse that usually stayed damp, the one that got lit on those rare occasions when he met a woman who actually scared him. It was sort of like sex, but harder to find.

Jerry Stahl

#11. All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

William Tyndale

#12. Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

Bob Taft

#13. Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Edward Young

#14. The merchant has no country .

Thomas Jefferson

#15. He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.

John Green

#16. 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