18th Century Quotes

61 quotes by 56 authors

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation. — David McCullough
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against… — Hugo Black
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is… — Anthony Kennedy
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans… — Lucy Worsley
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,… — Robert Smithson
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and… — Joseph J. Ellis
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to… — Cecilia Bartoli
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow
We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need… — Noah Feldman
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M H Abrams
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come… — Tom Devine
Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was… — David McCullough
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal.… — Simon Schama
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then… — David Starkey
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone… — Noam Chomsky
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. — Simon Schama
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of… — Leslie Stephen

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