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It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
— Chuck Palahniuk
She ... wanted no one - apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.
— Kate Atkinson
as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century
— Oscar Wilde
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
— Alfred North Whitehead
(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)
— Ann Jones
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
— Alberto Moravia
I don't woo. We're not in the nineteenth century. I fuck. And I'm awesome at it. Hence why women keep coming back for more.
— Samantha Towle
The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.
— Robert Hass
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.
— Hunter Shea
Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
— Ricky Jay
The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen.
— Niall Ferguson
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
— Thaddeus Stevens
Nicotine had been isolated and synthesized in the nineteenth century. In pure form, it took an ounce at most to kill the average adult.
— Deborah Blum
In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.
— John McWhorter
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.
— Robert Hughes
In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The
— Karen Armstrong
The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.
— Amit Chaudhuri
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
— Jill Lepore
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
— Gore Vidal
Academics and scientists too easily enjoy the role of secular priesthood given them in the nineteenth century by T. H. Huxley in particular.
— Simon James
The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.
{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
— Robert Higgs
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Greece could boast the highest proportion of university students among its population across Europe
— Stathis N. Kalyvas
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
— James A. Michener
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
— Lukas Foss
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
— Bertrand Russell
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.
— Clive Ponting
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.
— George Orwell
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
— Paul Tillich
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!
— John Irving
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
— David Brinkley
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
— Susanna Clarke
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
— William Weld
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
— Kenneth Clark
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
— Erich Fromm
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.
— Millicent Garrett Fawcett
In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as retirement,
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings.
— Witold Rybczynski
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
— John Maynard Keynes
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
But during the nineteenth century, Europe was reconfigured into clearly defined states ruled by a central government.
— Karen Armstrong
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.
— Geoffrey Blainey
The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
— Edgar Allan Poe
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
— Marshall McLuhan
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
— John Thorn
While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies.
— Michel Houellebecq
This is who Ezra is dating now. He is now into girls who are into dressing up as nineteenth century prostitutes. For the hats.
— Leila Sales
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
— Arthur Peacocke
The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses
— George Orwell
Posterity
the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley
the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley
WHORES.
Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes
Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
— Thomas Szasz
The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.
— Nathaniel Branden
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
— Heinrich Heine
The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
— Marcel Proust