The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)” — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.” — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me. — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
“MELLICK, ANDREW D., JR. The Story of an Old Farm, or Life in New Jersey in the Eighteenth Century. Somerville, New Jersey: 1889.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You must,” I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to… — Philippe Ariès Copy Share Image
“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Only in the late eighteenth century, with Burke and his theory of the sublime, Wordsworth and his mountains, Rousseau and his thoughts… — Hugh Thomson Copy Share Image
“but I remained bouncy and immune throughout – by the early eighteenth century the Electors’ tombs are entirely out of control and… — Simon Winder Copy Share Image
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“What changed at the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, was not so much the discovery of a fundamentally new concept in… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a… — Edouard Berth Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
