19th Century Quotes

• Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

  James Black

  Creativity, Independent, Science

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

  Alfred Marshall

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Class

  Alfred Marshall (1977). “Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume”

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• Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Andrew Wiles

  College, Umpires, People

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

  Michael Beschloss

  Drama, Political, Facts

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• When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

  James Hillman

  Christian, Way, Tradition

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• At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

  David Lavender

  Country, Dawn, Awakening

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• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Yesterday, Century, Newspapers

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• In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Rivers, Mind, Environmental

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• The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Age, Individualism, Socialism

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.112, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

  Gordon Getty

  Personality, Century, Music Is

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Thinking, Guy

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• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Thinking, America

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  Gavin Bryars

  Writing, Century

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

  Josh McDowell

  Biblical, Historical, Reliability

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• I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Literature, Stories

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• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fashion, Book, Years

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• We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

  Neil Sheehan

  Leadership, Country, Military

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• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

  Douglas Sirk

  Beauty, Art, Ideas

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• We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

  Susan George

  Running, Ideas, Trying

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• The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

  Jim Gerlach

  Years, Population, Industrialization

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• I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

  John Irving

  Character, Stories, Fans

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• However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

  Richard Ernst

  Book, Home, Hands

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• Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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