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Victorian Quotes

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I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
Simon Callow

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
Freddie Mercury

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
Chris Patten

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
Alicia Witt

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Lytton Strachey

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
Dylan McDermott

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
Martin C. Smith

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
Stephen Gardiner

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
Ken Follett

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Nicolas Roeg

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