Late Nineteenth Century

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

    Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
    Leon Edel (b. 1907)

    So, we’ll go no more a-roving
    So late into the night,
    Though the heart be still as loving,
    And the moon be still as bright.
    For the sword outwears its sheath,
    And the soul wears out the breast.
    And the heart must pause to breathe
    And love itself have rest.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)