Victorian Age Quotes

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

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

I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.

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, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

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.

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

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

In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.