Accounts Quote by Oscar Wilde

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

“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

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Anonymous

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

— Bertrand Russell

The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as…

— Norman Mailer

“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