Quotes About Victorian Houses

#1. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Gore Vidal

#2. Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.

Ted Naifeh

#3. We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Stephen Hawking

#4. To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Amiri Baraka

#5. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.

Steven Gaines

#7. Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

Luigi Pirandello

#8. I don't mind being divine. It beats being in a curry. I

Sreedhevi Iyer

#9. A Conceit
Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.
Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.
For me
Give me your hand.

Maya Angelou

#10. Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done
And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

William Wordsworth