Early Twentieth Century

Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, early, twentieth and/or century:

    “The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)