85 Quotes About Victorian-era
- Author Kim Newman
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God, the vampire women! What a pack of foaming she-cats!
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- Author Ilse V. Rensburg
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The coppers, thinking I must be hacked to bits at the bottom of the Thames, now blame both murders on the Ripper. The theory is so ironic I cannot help but snort out a tirade of titters.
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- Author Ilse V. Rensburg
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The remaining half of my gin stands before me, and yet, no amount of drink can quench this thirst.
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- Author Ilse V. Rensburg
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I ignore him and continue walking. I ignore the light drizzle that falls from the smog-filled sky and I ignore the mass of men who stand outside the public-house attempting to light their pipes with matchsticks that burn out as fast as they are struck alight. I ignore their thunderous cackles and cajoling as one of their friends gets sick on another's boots and I ignore my pseudo-name as my mentor yells it behind me.
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- Author Christopher Fowler
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The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.
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- Author Jessica Dotta
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Was it possible to be homesick for a soul?
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- Author Lucy Worsley
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What interests me - and indeed many others today, now women's contributions to history are better recognised - is [Victoria's] eventual return to fiery form. "While the Prince Consort lived," she told a visitor in the early 1860s, "he thought for me, now I have to think for myself.
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- Author Lucy Worsley
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It was a passage fitting for a Victorian heroine, submitting herself to the greater goodness of her man. She made herself comfortable with the unwomanliness of her actions by convincing herself that it was Albert who was making a sacrifice. Subsuming herself to him was how she justified, in her mind, the two opposing roles of queen and wife.
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- Author Lucy Worsley
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But Albert's physical strength and her physical softness seemed only right. They were well briefed about the respective roles of a lady and her Knight by their jointly admired Sir Walter Scott. "The fine delicate fragile form" of the female, as Scott put it, required "the support of the Master's muscular strength and masculine character.
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