... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible…

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

— Gustave Flaubert

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives…

— Louis Daguerre

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

— Edgar Allan Poe

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

— Edward Steichen

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by…

— Walt Whitman

Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The…

— Rosy Cole

“With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.”

— Alan Trachtenberg

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

“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