It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding—the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth… — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling:… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
