Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century…

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel

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

— Adolf Loos

“Although advertising began in the late nineteenth century with the development of the first branded products, its true explosion came in the 1920s, when…

— Robert J. Gordon

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed…

— David Grann

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

— Stephanie Coontz

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian…

— Ian Gregor

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm…

— William J. Clinton

“As such, the usual pattern of interaction between a critical juncture and existing institutional differences leading to further institutional and economic divergence played out…

— Daron Acemoğlu

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Glen Duncan

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

— Ida B. Wells

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…

— George Orwell