Victorian Era Quotes

• With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

  Winston Churchill

  Eras, Century, Ends

  Winston Churchill (1953). “Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 and 1952. Edited by Randolph S. Churchill”

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Baby, Long, Eras

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.278, Random House

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• I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

  Terry Pratchett

  Work Out, Doe, Watches

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• I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

  Annie Lennox

  Eras, Victorian, Fascinated

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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.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Idyllic, Wonderland

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until people were ready to make use of it. The same thing happens in literary circles. The truth is, I'm not terribly interested in Victorian times; I'm interested in Victorian writers. I'm interested in most eras of history, but not the Victorian Era especially. I was interested in the John Franklin Expedition. I was interested in these last five weird years of Dickens' life. And I just have to take the age that comes with all that when I write about it.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, People, Waiting

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Toby Young

  New York, Wine, Ideas

  Fuente: wwd.com

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• No me interesan en absoluto los orígenes de Stonehenge. No me importa la verdadera historia que hay detrás ni si debería salvarse o no. Lo que me interesa es lo siguiente: en la época victoriana, podías ir allí como turista cultural precoz y te daban un cincel para que arrancaras un trozo de las piedras y te lo llevaras. Eso es lo que se hacía en la época victoriana.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Cuidado, Piedras

  Entrevista con Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. 1 de enero de 2004.

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Dirty, Hands, Mind

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

  Federico Lenz

  Writing, Years, Style

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• The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

  Laurie R. King

  War, Different, World

  "PW Talks with Laurie R. King". Interview with Robert C. Hahn, www.publishersweekly.com. February 18, 2002.

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• I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.

  Nick Offerman

  Play, Navy, Three

  Fuente: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sibling, Funeral, Generations

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