Best 19th Century Words

144 19th Century quotes by 133 unique authors

• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism,… — Jonathan Sacks
• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You… — Donna Shalala
• There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith
• Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is… — Lewis Thomas
• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This… — Eva Zeisel
• I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. — Bill Watterson
• There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known… — Thomas Pynchon
• From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical… — Terri Windling
• The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. — Albert Camus
• Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — Unknown Author
• In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the… — Martin Sorrell
• From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played… — Winston Churchill
• The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be… — Andrew Mwenda
• The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks… — Sugata Mitra
• Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the… — Kenneth Frampton
• In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
• Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. — Twyla Tharp
• Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform.… — George Soros
• When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named… — Joe Posnanski
• Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way,… — Charles Palliser
• In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century,… — Mustafa Akyol
• I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean,… — Julia Glass
• In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it. — Rose George
• In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all… — Seth Shostak

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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
• 1 19th Century Quote by Sugata Mitra
• 1 19th Century Quote by Sue Monk Kidd