19th C Society Quotes

#1. I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

Jaye Davidson

#2. Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

Kate Williams

#3. There'd be no molecules, no chemistry and, hence, no life without static cling.

James Kakalios

#4. We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Susan George

#5. There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she had for her life are endangered. It is then she must declare herself a refuge and take whatever measures to preserve her natural elements."--Portion of the Sea

Christine Lemmon

#6. Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers

#7. They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...

Anna Godbersen

#8. But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jane Austen

#9. Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Henry Adams

#10. In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#11. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

Randall Terry

#13. Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

William J. Brennan

#14. Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

Iqbal Quadir

#15. We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

Leonard Mlodinow

#16. Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Thomas Carlyle