Victorian Times Quotes

• There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

  John Landis

  Taken, Film, Horror

  Interview with Jason Guerrasio, film.avclub.com. September 08, 2011.

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• When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Women, Mean, Hair

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

  Ashley Montagu

  Personality, Purpose, Victorian

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• I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Care, Stones

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

  Rod Serling

  Summer, Thinking, Disease

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.

  Alan Green

  Thinking, People, Church

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.

  Kabir Bedi

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Thinking, Offering

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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