Late Nineteenth Century

Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late, nineteenth and/or century:

    “Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Posterity—the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism—grows ever harder to conceive.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)