Best 19th-Century Quotes
32 19th-Century quotes by 32 unique authors
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In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
— Richard Flanagan
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Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which…
— Martin Cruz Smith
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Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy…
— Jeff Goodell
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My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
— Marilynne Robinson
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I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're…
— Robyn Davidson
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I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
— Robert Reed
Who Wrote These 19th-Century Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 32 19th-Century Quotes, led by these top contributors: