Quotes about 19th century

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16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment. — Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days — Virchand Gandhi, The Monist
Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. — Lester B. Pearson
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty mus — Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attainin — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off you — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is — Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus
Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The — Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel
I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. — Oscar Wilde
eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants — Ann Howard Creel, Call Me the Canyon: A Love Story
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who sp — Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core — Fred Whitehead, Free-Thought on the American Frontier
I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...bu — Søren Kierkegaard
Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everythin — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable "vice" of Jewishnes — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were alm — Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887
The birth and growth of modern antisemitism has been accompanied by and interconnected with Jewish assimilation, the sec — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism