Century Quote by Anonymous

“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

“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

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

“...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

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

— John Thorn

“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but…

— Edith Wharton

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

— Winston Churchill

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the…

— George Ripley

“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

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of…

— Christiane Amanpour

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

— Samuel Goldwyn