Nineteenth Century Quotes

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.