Victorian Lady Quotes

#1. I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

Jack London

#3. Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#4. I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

Margaret Thatcher

#5. Beauty was a weapon as well, one Viola enjoyed wielding.

Katherine McIntyre

#6. That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

Kirsty Logan

#7. You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Two years older than me, but he's [Dust] one of those guys who you known is an old soul the moment you meet him.

Katie McGarry

#9. I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

John Green

#10. The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.

Douglas Brinkley

#11. I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.

Ashley Jensen

#12. She left the window - and I said to myself, The lady is dark. She moved forward a few steps - and I said to myself, The lady is young. She approached nearer - and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words failed me to express), The lady is ugly!

Wilkie Collins

#13. Customers rarely know what they want until they don't get it.

William Vaughn

#14. I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

Barry Humphries

#15. If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Ray Kroc

#16. Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

Lars Von Trier

#17. I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

Nick Johnson