"Eminent Victorians" Quotes
A collection of biographical essays that critically examines the lives of four prominent figures from the Victorian era.
biography | 571 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
The world is not a place on which one can turn one’s back.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Napoleon is the god of war and of the world.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
The wretchedness of the poor is not as having too little, but as having too much.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The most virtuous of women will always be the most tender of mothers.
A good autobiography is so rare as truth.
