He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have heard the news.
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On William Makepeace Thackeray Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 65)Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Of all the Victorian novelists, he was probably the most antagonistic to the Victorian age itself.
Charles Dickens
The engine sounds like Victorian plumbing — it looks like Victorian plumbing as well, to be honest.
Jeremy Clarkson
Thatcher also gave the following quote a few weeks later : I was brought up by a Victorian grandmother. You were taught to work jolly hard, you were taught to improve yourself, you were taught self-reliance, you were taught to live within your income, you were taught that cleanliness was next to godliness. You were taught self-respect, you were taught always to give a hand to your neighbor, you were taught tremendous pride in your country, you were taught to be a good member of your community. All of these things are Victorian values. [...] They are also perennial values as well.
Margaret Thatcher
Victorian values.
Margaret Thatcher
We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, — considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
Henry David Thoreau
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Chevalier, Albert
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