Romantic Victorian Quotes

#1. Weird that a house so new could feel haunted, and not in the romantic Victorian-novel way, just really gruesomely, shittily ruined.

Gillian Flynn

#2. I am naked because I am going for a swim," he says happily. Then he laughs loudly, clutching his side. "Oh Johnny you look like an outraged Victorian chaperone. You just need a pearl necklace to clutch." He waggles his eyebrows lecherously. "I can definitely help you out with that.

Lily Morton

#3. She isn't stupid. She's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro.

Nella Larsen

#4. The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.

Richard Bookstaber

#5. I wish I had time to listen to music more.

John Edgar Wideman

#6. He looked like how Victorian Romantic poets looked just before the consumption and drug abuse really started to cut it.

Terry Pratchett

#7. One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.

Ann Landers

#8. Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.

Philip Kerr

#9. Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

#10. Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

Homer

#11. Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.

Stephen Moyer

#12. Sometimes theft can be as simple and direct as a fist in an unsuspecting face, and sometimes it can be as complex as a military operation.

Michael McClung

#13. My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

Georgina Chapman

#14. No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines
ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives ...

Marisha Pessl

#15. Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

David Pietrusza