Victorian Quotes

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

Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...

He may care for her, though she really has been almost rude to him at times. But she! – why, Margare...

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of ...

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha...

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all...

the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it...

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since...