Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, conservative, friends and/or twentieth:
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“As friends go it is less important to live.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)