Quotes About Victorian London

#1. The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.

Sarah Pinborough

#2. My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

Alan Bradley

#3. In Victorian London they used to burn phosphorus at seances in an attempt to see ghosts, and I suspect that the pop-music equivalent is our obsession with B-sides and alternate versions and unreleased material.

Nick Hornby

#4. Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edmund Spenser

#5. I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

Michael Connelly

#6. The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood

Arun Joshi

#7. The day of the press statement has gone.

Elizabeth Hurley

#8. It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

Miss Mae

#9. Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

John Calvin

#10. No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.

Anthony Horowitz

#11. I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Bernhard Langer

#12. Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Marshall Field

#13. No book is written; it's always re-written

Jean Fullerton

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

Danny Boyle

#15. I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard

#16. Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.

Judith Flanders

#17. In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.

Confucius

#18. 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