Late Nineteenth Century

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

    “Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

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

    “Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,
    So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)