The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding—the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
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