1780s Quotes

#1. What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

#2. My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

Simon Toyne

#3. Eventually, in the 1780s, Louis XVI, who had ascended to the throne on his grandfather's death, realised that half his annual budget was tied to servicing the interest on his loans, and that he was heading towards bankruptcy.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was probably punishable by stoning or corsets.

James Goss

#5. Leadership is fundamentally about credibility.

Rick Crossland

#6. What you will become is a result of what you are willing to endure. Are you willing to work hard? To think hard? I know that you are. You always have been.

Eric Greitens

#7. Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

Jody Watley

#8. The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

Rod Stewart

#9. Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Wesley Snipes

#10. Spiritual matters should be private.

Sherman Alexie

#11. Get you pretty ass ready and you might as well settle yourself to it. Because you are mine." His finger pointed imperiously toward her chest. "And you will stay mine.

Lora Leigh

#12. I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Jamie Foxx

#13. A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.

Julian Of Norwich