Quotes Tagged With :victorian

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights.....

No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print.....

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you....

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think....

A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because....

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.....

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to....

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident....

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's....