Century Quote by Anonymous

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me…

— Ada Palmer

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

— Karel Capek

“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a mind that…

— C.S. Lewis

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive; two figures…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,…

— Victor Hugo

I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my…

— Edward Gibbon

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

“I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England.”

— George Eliot

“theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects…

— Charles Dickens