19th Century Quotes

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

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

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Washington was no politician as we understand the word, " replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

One can't step into the river twice

16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.