Late Nineteenth Century

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

    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)

    If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

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