I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The…

“Whoever desires to be free, shall search for the Truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”

— Tom Turner

“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a veneer of…

— Edouard Berth

The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense…

— John Mearsheimer

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

— Ralph Adams Cram

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

— Frank Crowninshield

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and…

— William McKinley

“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how…

— Henry James

“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)”

— Jerry Z. Muller

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer…

— John Eliot Gardiner

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century…

— Willard Sterne Randall