Late Nineteenth Century

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

    “The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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

    “The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”
    —John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)