Quotes Tagged With :victorian

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass....

Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves....

I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I....

There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the....

The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance,....

The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone.....

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her....

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

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company,....

The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria....