Victorian Novel Quotes

#1. Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time?

Thomas C. Foster

#2. I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Moonstones and diamonds," said Griphook, who had sidled into the room without Harry noticing. "Made by goblins, I think?

J.K. Rowling

#4. I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

Colin Meloy

#5. Legends exaggerate.

Toba Beta

#6. Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

Rand Paul

#7. Tess was carried along the wings of the hours

Thomas Hardy

#8. The roof was a gymnasium for the winds

Thomas Hardy

#9. Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.

Charlotte Bronte

#10. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#11. At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.

Michel Faber

#12. Life is too short to care about what other people says and thinks about you. So live life and give them something to talk about.

Marlene Hansen

#13. She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

Stella Gibbons

#14. Validate your direction, verify your results. Make resistance work for you by motivating you to continue the path you are on, to continue the journey to your very best. To continue on to where you previously feared to go.

Tony Curl

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

Gillian Flynn

#16. If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.

Heather Demetrios

#17. In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

Tom Peters

#18. When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.

Tim Pratt

#19. Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner.

Cassandra Krivy Hirsch