Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late and/or nineteenth:
“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)