Nineteenth century Quotes

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

— Jill Lepore

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

— Jill Lepore

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Susan Sontag

“Nineteenth century industrial society had created a new class of slaves,”

— F. H. Buckley

“The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another”

— Thomas Sowell

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it…

— Gertrude Stein

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it…

— John McGahern

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Robert Higgs

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

— Ludwig Quidde

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

— Oscar Wilde

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women…

— Mary Ritter Beard

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming…

— Gloria Steinem

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .…

— John Dos Passos

Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of…

— William S. McFeely

Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I…

— Pankaj Mishra

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations…

— William Ralph Inge

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the…

— Adolf Loos

“In the nineteenth century, it was to the west and to the United States that such individuals looked for fame and fortune;…

— Peter Frankopan

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France,…

— G. Edward Griffin

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl…

— Stephanie Coontz

Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which…

— Steve Martin

The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…

— John Herschel

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are…

— John Cage

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"…

— Camille Paglia

Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Love between women could take on a new shape in the late nineteenth century because the feminist movement succeeded both in opening…

— Lillian Faderman

“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted…

— Lynn Hersha

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.…

— Victor Hugo

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

— C.P. Snow

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,

— Mark Kurlansky

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan