Century Quote by Oscar Wilde

“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 whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.”

— Robert Hass

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

— Cary Fukunaga

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“It would be safe to say that by the nineteenth century, pietism had long since dislodged Puritanism as the dominant force in American religious life.”

— Stephen J. Nichols

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

There are no facts, only stories.

— Emma Restall Orr

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

— J. Paul Getty

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

— Charles Olson

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

— John Thorn

“because a surfeit of sexual activity at an early age was believed to lead to an early death.”

— Sylvia Barbara Soberton

“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we encounter historical…

— John Bowen