Famous quotes containing the words early and/or victorian:
“Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another age ... when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)