19th-Century Quotes

32 quotes by 32 authors

• 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
• I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson
• 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
• The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
• 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
• 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
• 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 hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman
• You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney
• 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
• 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
• The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones. — Judith Miller
• My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls… — Lou Doillon
• Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they… — Rosemary Mahoney
• Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish… — Noah Feldman

Who Wrote These 19th-Century Quotes

32 authors contributed a total of 32 19th-Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 19th-Century Quote by John le Carre
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Ken Follett
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Jeff Goodell
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Marilynne Robinson
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Peter York
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Rita Levi-Montalcini
• 1 19th-Century Quote by John Banville
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Tom Hodgkinson
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Niall Ferguson
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Judith Miller
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Maya Angelou
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Daniel Radcliffe
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Marian Wright Edelman
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Patti Smith
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Lou Doillon
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Rosemary Mahoney
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Noah Feldman
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Patch Adams
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Anne Wojcicki
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Robert Dallek
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Glen Duncan
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Thom Mayne
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Richard Flanagan
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Robert Reed
• 1 19th-Century Quote by Gordon Getty