1817 Quotes

#1. My books are friends that never fail me.
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

Patrick Henry

#3. Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. On the far left is Jane Austen, who of course died in 1817 in our inferior universe. In the pocket universe, she lives to ninety-five and writes dozens of bestselling masterpieces and makes a mint and lives happily ever after.

Sydney Padua

#5. My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#6. FEARON, HENRY BRADSHAW. Sketches of America (1817-1818). Narrative of a Journey of 5,000 Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America. Second Edition, London: 1818.

Anonymous

#7. Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

Elaine Sciolino

#8. [Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

William C. Bryant

#9. In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

L. Ron Hubbard

#10. When will we get the chance to be just friends? It's never safe for us, not even in the evening, cuz I've been drinking. Not in the morning, when your shit works. It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping, and I've been thinking ... Can we be alone?

Amy Winehouse

#11. Apparently nice Horse would be joining me for dinner instead of his evil twin.

Joanna Wylde

#12. I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'

Joanna Lumley

#13. Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

Bell Hooks

#14. Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

Christine Swanson