Best 19th Century Sayings

144 19th Century quotes by 133 unique authors

• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault
• 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
• I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson
• 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
• 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
• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. — Calvin Trillin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable. — Mike Leigh
• The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
• 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
• 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
• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. — Gavin Bryars
• 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
• I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels. — Ken Follett
• My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty
• 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
• 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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Who Wrote These 19th Century Quotes

133 authors contributed a total of 144 19th Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 19th Century Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Seth Shostak
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Peter York
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Michael Beschloss
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Margaret Atwood
• 2 19th Century Quotes by John Irving
• 2 19th Century Quotes by Gordon Getty
• 1 19th Century Quote by Wim Crouwel
• 1 19th Century Quote by William James
• 1 19th Century Quote by William J. Clinton
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• 1 19th Century Quote by Wesley Clark
• 1 19th Century Quote by Warren Buffett
• 1 19th Century Quote by Walter Murch
• 1 19th Century Quote by Viggo Mortensen
• 1 19th Century Quote by Twyla Tharp
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