Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late, nineteenth and/or century:
“The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“... asks what it’s too late to ask:
“Where is my life? Where is my life?
What have I done with my life?””
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Posterity—the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism—grows ever harder to conceive.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)