Best 19th Century Quotations

144 19th Century quotes by 133 unique authors

• France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. — Raoul Dufy
• The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates
• George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… — Peter York
• I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists… — Peter York
• Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton
• Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think… — Barack Obama
• I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe… — Josh Lieb
• It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… — Joseph Sobran
• Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word… — Wim Crouwel
• The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris
• The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the… — Steve Coogan
• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even… — Henry Louis Gates
• We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George
• I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman
• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a… — Brian Eno
• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied. — Gary Hamel
• You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney
• I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost… — John Irving
• Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the… — Boris Johnson
• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous… — Barbara Jordan
• Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these… — Josh McDowell
• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of… — Alan Moore
• Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century.… — Michael Moore
• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in… — Viggo Mortensen
• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and… — Daniel Radcliffe

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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
• 1 19th Century Quote by William J. Brennan
• 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
• 1 19th Century Quote by Tom Standage
• 1 19th Century Quote by Timothy Noah
• 1 19th Century Quote by Thomas Pynchon
• 1 19th Century Quote by Terri Windling
• 1 19th Century Quote by Susan George
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