Century Quote by Ogden Nash

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be…

— Moss Hart

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

— Winston Churchill

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

— Paul Lafargue

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked…

— Tom Standage

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades…

— Paul Kantner

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,…

— Victor Hugo

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

— John Fowles

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson