Late Nineteenth Century

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

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

    “... 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)

    “... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)