Quotes About Victoriana

#1. I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

Florence Welch

#2. It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

David Levithan

#4. My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Jean Racine

#5. A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.

Gordon Brown

#6. We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

Michelle Obama

#7. In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.

Pamela Horn

#8. He can't give you a future."
"I know. Because I make my own future.

Emma Raveling

#9. Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Baltasar Gracian

#10. Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.

Brendon Burchard

#11. There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Richard G. Scott

#12. Abigail had no interest in the dolls themselves. Only in what she could keep from them.

Christie Stratos

#13. Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

James A. Baldwin

#15. Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

Mooji

#16. Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Oliver Stone