Quotes of: Victorian Keyword

In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate or too extended to be briefly depicted.

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian affirmations. The price it pays, however (together with several twentieth-century novels) is that...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.

Life As A Victorian Lady

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

Ted Baillieu

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Philip Reeve

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.

Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England

What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

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This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not? ("The Wondersmith")

Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

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You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

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Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

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Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up.

Courage

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, an...

Robert Gottlieb

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

Margaret Atwood

It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact writing something quite different.

Sexual Repression And Victorian Literature

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me...

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