Victorian Age Quotes

• 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.

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  Bertrand Russell

  Men   Age   Prudes  

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.75, Routledge

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• 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.

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  George Edward Woodberry

  Art   Drama   Fall  

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

  1827

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

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  Dylan McDermott

  Jeans   Age   Eras  

  2771

• 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.

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  Robert Gottlieb

  Kindness   Hard Work   Men  

  4093

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

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  Gunnar Myrdal

  Age   Heyday   Economic  

  2337

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

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  Lytton Strachey

  History   Age   Unattainable  

  Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

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