Quotes About Victorian Homes

#1. My construction will cover the entire Universe.

Sathya Sai Baba

#2. A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

Mary Watkins

#3. In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.

Bill Bryson

#4. It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone. He obeyed at once. Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. The worse one sins, the more of a moralist one becomes.

Caleb Crain

#6. I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

Agnes Martin

#7. The perfect plan is to have none.

Marty Rubin

#8. What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?
... The term was faith.

Barry Lyga

#9. Every conceivable sort of silly creature that has ever been created has been sent to cross me.

H.G.Wells

#10. As long as you like me the best. And you think I'm good-looking - sort of. I'm prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. There is no doubt that every single body cell is influenced by the way we think and feel.

Gian Kumar

#12. If only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened.

Vera Brittain

#13. 75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical

Yogi Berra