19th Century Quotes
144 quotes by 136 authors
-
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
-
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have…
— Margaret Atwood
-
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
— John Banville
-
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the…
— James Buchan
-
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
— John le Carre
-
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I…
— Maya Angelou
-
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
— Amory Lovins
-
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
-
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They…
— James Black
-
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century…
— Marie-Antoine Careme
-
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th…
— Alfred Marshall
-
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,
— John F. Kerry
-
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
-
Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba…
— Ishmael Reed
-
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century…
— Wesley Clark
-
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just…
— Jane Campion
-
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under…
— Judith Thurman
-
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the…
— Tom Standage
-
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are…
— John Irving
-
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Who Wrote These 19th Century Quotes
136 authors contributed a total of 144 19th Century Quotes, led by these top contributors: