Late Nineteenth Century

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

    “We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters.”
    —Jane, Lady Wilde (1821–1896)

    “It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)