Culture
- Oktawia Kawęcka, a jazz musician, singer, flutist, composer, producer and actress.
- Octavia (play), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death
- Octavia (opera), by Reinhard Keiser
- Octavia, a romance by Jilly Cooper
- Octavia (TV serial), an ITV adaptation of Cooper's novel, written by Jonathan Harvey
- Octavia (She-Ra) is a character from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power
- Octavia of the Julii, a character in HBO's television series Rome loosely based on Octavia Minor
- Octavia, Kielian snake in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. She is a nest maid for Ezylryb and Madame Plonk
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“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)