Best 19th Century Sayings
144 19th Century quotes by 133 unique authors
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
— Douglas Sirk
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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would…
— Neil Sheehan
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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied…
— Andrew Wiles
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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
— Warren Buffett
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In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture…
— Michael Behe
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U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
— Robert Breault
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I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.
— Niall Ferguson
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The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning…
— Neil Postman
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century…
— Lillian Hellman
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
— Calvin Trillin
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of…
— Mark Leyner
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
— Natalie Merchant
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Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.
— Mike Leigh
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The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
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I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must…
— Henning Mankell
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As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately…
— Louis Begley
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
— Gavin Bryars
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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
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
— Ken Follett
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My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
— Gordon Getty
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The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had…
— Jim Gerlach
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it…
— Laurie Anderson
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