Victorian Age Quotes

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

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

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.

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.

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.

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

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.