18th Century Quotes

18th Century Quote of the day

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

I am a person of the 18th century.

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.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.