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Quotes Tagged "victorian"

I’m going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won’t be here to … to bother anyone.” He muttered two quiet words. β€œWhat?” she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hear him. β€œI said, try it.
β€” Lisa Kleypas Marrying Winterborne
Tags: victorian, romance, historical-romance
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing.
β€” Jonathan Miles
Tags: sands, victorian, shells, pink
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
β€” Freddie Mercury
Tags: victorian, lead, surrounded, want, life
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
β€” Stephen Gardiner
Tags: united-states, victorian, straight, architecture
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.
β€” Alastair Reynolds
Tags: victorian, idea, steam, engineering
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
β€” Margaret Atwood
Tags: harvard, victorian, subject, literature
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