19th century Quote by William Rathbone Greg

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were…

— Amor Towles

I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

— Olivia De Havilland

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

— Gertrude Stein

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

— Ron Chernow

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a…

— Henry R. Luce

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

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

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

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore…

— Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century…

— Benito Mussolini

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have…

— Karl Marx