Janssens Royal Victorian Quotes

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. ~ Nick Offerman

It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis. ~ Bill Bryson

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness! ~ Anne, Princess Royal

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

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century ~ Winston Churchill

Poor Miss Porchester. She had sacrificed herself on the altar of Victorian morality, and I am afraid the consciousness that she had behaved beautifully was the only benefit she had got from it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

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

I'm not a royal family watcher. ~ Bill Nighy

We are ghosts in Victorian gowns,
lilac apparitions with parasols… ~ Simone Muench

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course. ~ Meg Cabot

Oh, Ed!" Mom exclaimed. "It's a Victorian. ~ Robert Liparulo

In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows. ~ David Mitchell

Dance with the one who brung ya. ~ Darrell Royal

Potential means you ain't done it yet. ~ Darrell Royal

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb ~ Royal Robbins

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully. ~ James Ruddick

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. ~ Freddie Mercury

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. ~ Clive Barnes

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. ~ Annie Lennox

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time. ~ Robert N. Lee

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. ~ Chanakya

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. ~ Charles Palliser

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. ~ George Macaulay Trevelyan

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us. ~ A. N. Wilson

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession. ~ Jeff Lindsay

People better get used to the idea that I exist. ~ Segolene Royal

Potential just means you ain't done it yet. ~ Darrell Royal

Life's book by Stephen King haunted by our darkest fears! ~ Royal McGraw

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. ~ Margaret Atwood

He's as quick as a hiccup. ~ Darrell Royal

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you. ~ Bert V. Royal

Love was dangerous. It made one too vulnerable, too open to the pain of loss and betrayal. ~ Lauren Royal

They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces. ~ Darrell Royal

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

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist. ~ Jonathan Auxier

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

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. ~ James Agate

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. ~ Martin Short

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family ... ~ John Boorman

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours. ~ Sarah Waters

I do appreciate, Ernestine, that your first instinct is not to prevent me from doing something scandalous, but to help me get away with it. ~ Lisa Kleypas

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era. ~ Laurie R. King

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. ~ Fred Tomaselli

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. ~ Karl Marx

No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch. ~ Herbert Wind

To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting. ~ Cheshire Cat

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant. ~ Darrell Royal

Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think. ~ Kate Williams

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse. ~ Darrell Royal

I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it? ~ Mark Hadlow

If you can see, he is with U right now' with a lot of divine connections JESUS. ~ Royal Prince David

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are ~ Pharrell Williams

When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal! ~ Anne, Princess Royal

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future. ~ Philip Reeve

We're as average as everyday's wash. ~ Darrell Royal

The first formal Haggadah was written over two thousand years ago. Over time, prayers, hymns, and selections from the Mishnah were added. ~ Ken Royal

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Peter sat as powerless as an overwhelmed female character in a Victorian drama. ~ Edgar Cantero

The Victorian happy ending– a vision of a huge loving family of three or four generations, all crammed together in the same house and constantly multiplying, like a bed of oysters. ~ George Orwell

Stop acting like a beggar,
know your place fool.

You're a royal guest, a royal guest -
that has been sent to this beautiful illusion. ~ Rafy Rohaan

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person. ~ Dawn French

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. ~ Connie Willis

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion. ~ Sara Sheridan

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. ~ Terry Pratchett

An ordinary potato has had more value than gold several times in history. ~ K.R. Royal

No one has too much time on their hands, even if they had the ability to live five-hundred years. ~ K.R. Royal

What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service. ~ L. Tom Perry

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. ~ Robert Ballard

The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends. ~ William Shakespeare

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses. ~ Darrell Royal

Many parts of Watford, especially around Vicarage Road Football Stadium, consist of scuzy warrens of Victorian terraced houses ~ Karl Wiggins

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly. ~ Matthew Of Edessa

Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives. ~ K.R. Royal

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books. ~ Simon Callow

A woman's rank
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood:
Therein alone she is royal. ~ George Eliot

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing. ~ Darrell Royal

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf. ~ Darrell Royal

All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains ~ John Millington Synge

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! ~ H.L. Mencken

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. ~ Alastair Reynolds

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era. ~ Connie Willis

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ. ~ Kenneth Rexroth

I used to care more about the score than I do now. ~ Darrell Royal

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

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. ~ James Buchan

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law. ~ Heather Brooke

I don't have the proudest moment in football. ~ Darrell Royal

I'm still healthy as can be. ~ Darrell Royal

People shouldn't argue about how old the Earth is, they should be concerned with how much longer it will last. ~ K.R. Royal

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. ~ Winston Churchill

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. ~ Paul Bettany

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day. ~ Darrell Royal

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. ~ Zara Phillips

Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. ~ Ben Shapiro

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama. ~ Mads Mikkelsen

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. ~ Wendell Phillips

In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass! ~ Mike Moran

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. ~ William Shakespeare

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. ~ Johannes Brahms

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time. ~ Darrell Royal