Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late and/or nineteenth:
“The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters.”
—Jane, Lady Wilde (18211896)