Victorian Age Quotes:

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

topic: Love, Life, Break Up, Hurting Him, Back Together

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

- Dylan McDermott

topic: Jeans, Age, Eras, Victorian Era, Victorian Age

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

- Lytton Strachey

source: Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

topic: Age, Too Much, Victorian Age, Victorian

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

- Gunnar Myrdal

topic: Age, Heyday, Economic, Victorian Age, Victorian

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.

- Bertrand Russell

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

topic: Men, Age, Prudes, Victorian Age

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.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Art, Drama, Fall, Victorian Age, Victorian

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.

- Robert Gottlieb

topic: Kindness, Hard Work, Men, Domestic Life, Victorian Age