18th century Quotes · Page 4

“IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

— William Manchester

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

— Charles Bukowski

When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably…

— James Fenton

The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world…

— Henry Steele Commager

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

— David Remnick

“Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.”

— Angelica Kauffman

I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

— Christian McKay

“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our…

— Deborah Harkness

The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very…

— Simon Schama

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century.…

— Bill Bryson

One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century…

— Stephen Marche

Fashion has been collected and exhibited for many years. People were picking up clothing of famous individuals, like Marie Antoinette's shoe or…

— Valerie Steele

We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis…

— Noah Feldman

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich,…

— Antonia Fraser

“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

— M. H. Abrams

“The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their…

— Vandana Shiva

The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a…

— Ernst Mayr

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of…

— Frank Lautenberg