117 result(s) for Victorian Quotes.
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"To be borne away by the spirit of the age is not to be a great man."
"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with in society."
"What we do know is that we will never know everything there is to know about ourselves."
"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times."
"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
"The first duty of a writer is to be honest."
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"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to those circumstances."
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
"Life is too short to be small."
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
"The past may not be altered; but the future is yours to change."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is how we use it."
"There is nothing permanent except change."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood."
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."
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"Let us be thankful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"The world is a stage, and the play is badly cast."
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"There is nothing more difficult than a line of work which has no real ending."
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
"I want to be a man who can say with honesty: I’m going to do something to protect life."
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is how we use what we have."
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"Science is always making advances, but it is our duty as people to keep pace with it."
"The mind of man is like a garden; it may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild."
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
"We are all the authors of our own lives."
"A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"Cynicism is often the result of the hard-won wisdom of experience."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
"The heart was made to be broken."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
"I can resist anything except temptation."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"The importance of the individual is the prime character of the Victorian and Edwardian eras."
"Victorian values were underscored by a focus on propriety and moral rectitude."
"Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for a better future."
"We are not amused."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
"The man who made money made what he liked."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."
"The imagination is the greatest delight of mankind."
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."
"The power of a woman has never been seen before; that of a Victorian woman is one that defies society."
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
"With great power there must also come—great responsibility."
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; she changes it more often."
"Though she be but little, she is fierce."
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
"It is only the context that makes a great difference."
"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
"Don't judge a book by its cover."
"It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show what we truly are."
"Some of us are destined to lead, and some are born to follow."
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
"The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees."
"To be great is to be misunderstood."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfelt joy."
"The very best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have."
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman’s beauty."
"Nothing can be more dangerous to the soul than this sedentary life."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"We are all made of stars."
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
"A house without love is like a house without windows."
"The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is able to see good."
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
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