Best 18th Century Quotes

61 18th Century quotes by 54 unique authors

• What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss
• If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947. — Pranab Mukherjee
• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.… — N. T. Wright
• To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old… — James Buchan
• I am a person of the 18th century. — Cecilia Bartoli
• The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels… — Jonathan Coe
• Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in… — Antonia Fraser
• When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost… — Nicole Krauss
• Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th,… — Seth Lloyd
• The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards.… — Peter York
• It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the… — D. V. Ager
• Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century. — David Letterman
• Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on. — Steve Coogan
• How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when… — Susan George
• Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of… — Paul Engle
• However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between… — Simon Mainwaring
• Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks
• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head. — Barbra Streisand
• One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These… — Andre Leon Talley
• In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of… — A. N. Wilson
• 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson
• In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see… — Virginia Woolf
• In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle… — Salman Rushdie
• The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some… — Ernst Mayr
• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was… — Adam Savage

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54 authors contributed a total of 61 18th Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 18th Century Quotes by Unknown Author
• 3 18th Century Quotes by Bill Bryson
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• 2 18th Century Quotes by Cecilia Bartoli
• 1 18th Century Quote by William Rees-Mogg
• 1 18th Century Quote by Walter Russell Mead
• 1 18th Century Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 18th Century Quote by Susan George
• 1 18th Century Quote by Steve Coogan
• 1 18th Century Quote by Simon Mainwaring
• 1 18th Century Quote by Seth Lloyd
• 1 18th Century Quote by Salman Rushdie
• 1 18th Century Quote by Ron Chernow
• 1 18th Century Quote by Robert Smithson
• 1 18th Century Quote by Richard Askey
• 1 18th Century Quote by Pranab Mukherjee
• 1 18th Century Quote by Peter York
• 1 18th Century Quote by Paul Engle
• 1 18th Century Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 18th Century Quote by Noah Feldman
• 1 18th Century Quote by Nicole Krauss
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