Nineteenth Quotes

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. - John Boyd Orr

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. - Satyajit Ray

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. - Robert Louis Stevenson

We did very well and sold across the board. Furniture appeared to sell especially well at the show. We sold a nice J&E Norton two-gallon bird jug with especially strong blue color. A visitor from California bought all three of our Nineteenth Century schoolgirl samplers. The show is well run and always a pleasure to do. - Marie Miller

The utopian social hope which sprang up in nineteenth-century Europe is still the noblest imaginative creation of which we have record. - Richard Rorty

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. - Joan Didion

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. - Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. - Ida B. Wells

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. - Gertrude Stein

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. - George Bernard Shaw