Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, nineteenth and/or century:
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“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)
“She’d have you spew up what you’ve drunk when you were out.”
—Caecilius (2nd century B.C.)