Words matter. These are the best Edwardian Quotes from famous people such as Mary Steenburgen, Michael Dirda, Peter York, Sandra Cisneros, Helena Bonham Carter, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You’ve never seen anything until you’ve seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he’s so… masculine.
With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction – mysteries, fantasy, and adventure – as eccentric or merely antiquarian.
Marmite – like that other little black-jar job, Bovril – is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn’t realize those were poor translations… English from Edwardian times.
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I’m pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
The reason I wanted to do ‘The First Men in the Moon’ was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don’t believe ‘The War of the Worlds’ or ‘The Time Machine’ have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They’ve needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
It’s hard being gay in Edwardian times.
By comparison, ‘The Secret Agent’ is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not technically. The Professor was a stock figure of Edwardian fiction, and his dreams of mass destruction were nothing ahead of their time. Many novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involved plots far more deadly.
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They’re both exactly as big as they need to be. I can’t be doing with an ostentatious, big house – you can only be in one room at a time.
I’ve always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward’s reign.
I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.
