Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late and/or nineteenth:
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“So was produced this tragedy
In a far tower of ivory
Where, O young men, late in the night
All you who drink light and stroke the air
Come back, seeking the night, and cry
To strict Rapunzel to let down her hair.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)