20th century Quote by Mary Quant

“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the…

— Coco Chanel

I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies.

— Martha Nussbaum

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

— Eleanor Catton

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…

— Elie Wiesel

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple…

— Lech Walesa

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

— Stephen Ambrose

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos