Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and…

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Glen Duncan

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The…

— Henry Adams

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of…

— Anonymous

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

— Hillary Clinton

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell…

— Tom Standage

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that…

— James A. Michener

“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what…

— Neal Stephenson

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.…

— Walter Murch

There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional - it…

— Sarah Weinman

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a…

— Newt Gingrich

An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source…

— Clare Wright