Nineteenth Quotes

157 Nineteenth quotes by 141 unique authors

• Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical… — Richelle Mead
• the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. — Oscar Wilde
• In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this… — Nicholas D. Kristof
• I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day… — John Green
• Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides
• I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad… — Kelley Armstrong
• The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting. — P.J. O'Rourke
• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal… — Joan Didion
• For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To… — Pema Chodron
• Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth… — Mark Twain
• There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast… — Hugh Hardy
• The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years… — Alice Morse Earle
• By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place… — Simon Schama
• From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement,… — Elliott Abrams
• The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote… — Cynthia Ozick
• Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore
• Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore
• Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan
• All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. — Malcolm Gladwell
• It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part… — Malcolm Gladwell
• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control… — John Moody
• If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses… — George Ripley
• Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. — Ludwig Quidde
• The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three… — Mary MacLane
• The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth… — Alfred Marshall

Who Wrote These Nineteenth Quotes

141 authors contributed a total of 157 Nineteenth Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 6 Nineteenth Quotes by Unknown Author
• 3 Nineteenth Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 3 Nineteenth Quotes by Eric Hoffer
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by Martin Filler
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by Ludwig Quidde
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by John Cage
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by Jill Lepore
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by Gertrude Stein
• 2 Nineteenth Quotes by Arthur Peacocke
• 1 Nineteenth Quote by William Winwood Reade
• 1 Nineteenth Quote by William Weld
• 1 Nineteenth Quote by William Ralph Inge
• 1 Nineteenth Quote by Wilhelm Ostwald
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• 1 Nineteenth Quote by Vladimir Lenin
• 1 Nineteenth Quote by Virchand Gandhi
• 1 Nineteenth Quote by Tom Wolfe
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• 1 Nineteenth Quote by Thomas Piketty
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