85 Quotes About Victorian-era
- Author Virginia Woolf
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Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as it gets into the woodwork - sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics, and little trifles that had been essays a column long were now encyclopaedias in ten or twenty volumes.
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- Author Connie Willis
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I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.
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- Author Charles Dickens
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Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts) must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves;
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- Author Bill Bryson
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In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.
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- Author T.G. Campbell
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Hello, Bow Street Society, Miss Rebecca Trent, Society clerk speaking.
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- Author Hallie Rubenhold
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The courses their lives took mirrored that of so many other women of the Victorian age, and yet were so singular in the way they ended. It is for them that I write this book. I do so in the hope that we may now hear their stories clearly and give back to them that which was so brutally taken away with their lives: their dignity.
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- Author Emmanuelle de Maupassant
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What if you should forget yourself in the excitement and just peddle straight through the park and out the other end?’ she warns. ‘If you keep your feet on the pedals and don’t stop, where might you end up?’The idea appeals to Maud more than she can say. She doesn’t want to know where she may ‘end up’.
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- Author George Gissing
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But the loneliness of her life had developed in her a sensitiveness which could not endure situations such as the present; difficulties which are of small account to people who take their part in active social life, harassed her to the destruction of all peace.
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- Author George Gissing
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Confound it! It's just because nobody does anything that things have come to this pass!
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