Nineteenth Quotes

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don`t believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

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

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

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.

If I haven`t made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

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