“ Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ”
- Malcolm Bradbury- Copy
“ A mass of Victorian wiles and granite that resembles a battleship in the rain and a wedding cake in the sun. ”
- Francis X. Clines- Copy
“ The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ”
- Lytton Strachey- Copy
“ Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires. ”
- C. E. M. Joad- Copy
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