Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth… — Jane Austen
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its… — Wendell Berry
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban… — Grant Morrison
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to… — Dean Koontz
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and… — Nick Hornby
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course… — Stephen King
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by… — Eric Schlosser
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that… — Arundhati Roy
We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. — Steve Toltz
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We… — J. G. Ballard
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,… — Tom Wolfe
You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time… — John Flanagan
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. — Kurt Vonnegut
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that… — Anne Rice
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. — Francis Schaeffer
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. — Christopher Hitchens
All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century… — C.S. Lewis

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