Victorian Age Quotes

• Es mejor haber amado y perdido que no haber amado nunca.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Amor, Divertido, Vida

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) Ver Congreve 7

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• La época victoriana es la más sexy para mí, pero también me gustan las mujeres en vaqueros.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jeans, Age, Eras

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

  Lytton Strachey

  History, Age, Unattainable

  Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

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• It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Age, Heyday, Economic

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• What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Age, Prudes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.75, Routledge

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• The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Drama, Fall

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• Dickens, a quien todo el mundo creía conocer, representaba todas las virtudes victorianas -la probidad, la bondad, el trabajo duro, la simpatía por los oprimidos, la santidad de la vida doméstica-, incluso cuando sus novelas exponían la violencia, la hipocresía, la codicia y la crueldad de la era victoriana.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Kindness, Hard Work, Men

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