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title: "59 Eighteenth Century Quotes by 55 authors"
description: "Browse 59 Eighteenth Century quotes by 55 authors. Discover the best Eighteenth Century sayings and thoughts."
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> [The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hare/the-poetry-from-the-eighteenth-century-was-prose-the-prose-from-the/)

[David Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hare/)

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> [“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-z-muller/it-was-in-the-eighteenth-century-that-england-became-what-adam-smith/)

[Jerry Z. Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-z-muller/)

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> [It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/it-never-occurred-to-any-enlightenment-figure-in-the-eighteenth/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [“I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/i-have-met-them-at-close-of-day-coming-with-vivid-faces-from-counter/)

[W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/)

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> [You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-lakoff/you-can-t-understand-twenty-first-century-politics-with-an-eighteenth/)

[George Lakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-lakoff/)

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> [“I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anatole-france/i-never-go-into-the-country-for-a-change-of-air-and-a-holiday-i/)

[Anatole France](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anatole-france/)

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> [I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigitte-macron/i-m-a-creature-of-the-eighteenth-century-at-heart-the-enlightenment/)

[Brigitte Macron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigitte-macron/)

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> [What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-crowninshield/what-marie-antoinette-was-to-eighteenth-century-france-mary-pickford/)

[Frank Crowninshield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-crowninshield/)

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> [My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mccullough/my-next-book-is-also-set-in-the-eighteenth-century-its-about-the/)

[David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mccullough/)

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> [The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mearsheimer/the-liberal-tradition-has-its-roots-in-the-enlightenment-that-period/)

[John Mearsheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mearsheimer/)

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> [In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/in-pure-literature-the-writers-of-the-eighteenth-century-achieved/)

[Lytton Strachey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lytton-strachey/)

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> [Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-maurice-de-talleyrand/those-who-have-not-lived-in-the-eighteenth-century-in-the-years/)

[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-maurice-de-talleyrand/)

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> [Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/book-reviewing-dates-only-to-the-eighteenth-century-when-for-the/)

[Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/)

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> [However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-dilthey/however-the-sciences-of-society-and-of-history-retained-their-old/)

[Wilhelm Dilthey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-dilthey/)

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> [“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-c-w-blanning/by-the-eighteenth-century-many-were-showing-all-the-negative/)

[Timothy C.W. Blanning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-c-w-blanning/)

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> [“MELLICK, ANDREW D., JR. The Story of an Old Farm, or Life in New Jersey in the Eighteenth Century. Somerville, New Jersey: 1889.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/mellick-andrew-d-jr-the-story-of-an-old-farm-or-life-in-new-jersey-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“You must,” I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-gabaldon/you-must-i-murmured-to-myself-and-then-my-knees-buckled-lying-on-the/)

[Diana Gabaldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-gabaldon/)

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> [What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amanda-foreman/what-makes-the-marriage-of-souls-such-a-wonderful-book-is-collins-s/)

[Amanda Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amanda-foreman/)

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> [“These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philippe-ari-s/these-people-no-doubt-became-more-common-in-the-seventeenth-and/)

[Philippe Ariès](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philippe-ari-s/)

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> [“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-eliot-gardiner/the-way-we-define-opera-circa-1700-may-help-us-to-throw-light-not/)

[John Eliot Gardiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-eliot-gardiner/)

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> [Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-gabaldon/lying-on-the-floor-with-the-carved-panels-of-the-ceiling-flickering/)

[Diana Gabaldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-gabaldon/)

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> [“Only in the late eighteenth century, with Burke and his theory of the sublime, Wordsworth and his mountains, Rousseau and his thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-thomson/only-in-the-late-eighteenth-century-with-burke-and-his-theory-of-the/)

[Hugh Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-thomson/)

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> [“but I remained bouncy and immune throughout – by the early eighteenth century the Electors’ tombs are entirely out of control and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-winder/but-i-remained-bouncy-and-immune-throughout-by-the-early-eighteenth/)

[Simon Winder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-winder/)

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> [The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaiah-berlin/the-intellectual-power-honesty-lucidity-courage-and-disinterested/)

[Isaiah Berlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaiah-berlin/)

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> [“What changed at the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, was not so much the discovery of a fundamentally new concept in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gavin-wright/what-changed-at-the-end-of-the-eighteenth-century-therefore-was-not/)

[Gavin Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gavin-wright/)

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> [“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/certainly-the-anonymous-scarecrow-portrait-was-intended-to-put-him-in/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/you-will-criticize-me-reader-for-writing-in-a-style-six-hundred-years/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

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> [“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/the-house-had-a-name-and-a-history-the-old-gentleman-taking-his-tea/)

[Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/)

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> [“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/in-the-eighteenth-century-with-the-growth-of-publishing-and-with-the/)

[Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/)

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> [“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-berth/compare-for-example-seventeenth-century-writers-with-those-of-the/)

[Edouard Berth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edouard-berth/)

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> [“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-chapman/perhaps-the-most-significant-intellectual-trend-of-the-eighteenth/)

[Malcolm Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-chapman/)

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> [Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/towards-the-end-of-the-eighteenth-century-the-industrial-financial/)

[Ralph Adams Cram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-adams-cram/)

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> [To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigid-brophy/to-my-mind-the-two-most-fascinating-subjects-in-the-universe-are-sex/)

[Brigid Brophy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigid-brophy/)

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> [somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-v-wedgwood/somewhere-about-the-eighteenth-century-history-tacitly-replaced/)

[C. V. Wedgwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-v-wedgwood/)

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> [“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/under-the-eighteenth-century-fashion-people-did-not-so-much-all/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbra-streisand/eighteenth-century-american-furniture-and-the-design-of-the/)

[Barbra Streisand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbra-streisand/)

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> [But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/but-the-eighteenth-century-on-the-whole-loathed-melancholy/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

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> [Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-auguste-renoir/berthe-morisot-was-a-painter-full-of-eighteenth-century-delicacy-and/)

[Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-auguste-renoir/)

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> [In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-l-r-james/in-the-last-quarter-of-the-eighteenth-century-bourgeois-europe-needed/)

[C. L. R. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-l-r-james/)

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> [In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-adams-cram/in-revolt-against-this-new-and-very-evil-thing-came-the-republicanism/)

[Ralph Adams Cram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-adams-cram/)

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                        "text": "“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me for explanation of those days of transformation which left your world the world it is, and since it was the philosophy of the Eighteenth Century, heavy with optimism and ambition, whose abrupt revival birthed the recent revolution, so it is only in the language of the Enlightenment, rich with opinion and sentiment, that those days can be described. You must forgive me my ‘thee’s and ‘thou’s and ‘he’s and ‘she’s, my lack of modern words and modern objectivity. It will be hard at first, but whether you are my contemporary still awed by the new order, or an historian gazing back at my Twenty-Fifth Century as remotely as I gaze back on the Eighteenth, you will find yourself more fluent in the language of the past than you imagined; we all are.”",
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                        "text": "“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night's hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent and terribly angular bed which still formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a good deal bruised and defaced in Cromwell's wars, and then, under the Restoration, repaired and much enlarged; and how, finally, after having been remodeled and disfigured in the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstances too complicated to set forth) it was offered at a great bargain: bought it with much grumbling at its ugliness, its antiquity, its incommodity, and who now, at the end of twenty years, had become conscious of a real aesthetic passion for it, so that he know all its points and would tell you just where to stand to see them in combination and just the hour when the shadows of its various protuberances--which fell so softly upon the warm, weary brickwork--were of the right measure.”",
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