19th Century Fiction Quotes

#1. I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

#2. I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

Orhan Pamuk

#4. Shine, baby, shine, be graceful child of mine. Be like the firefly who glows no matter how the darkness grows. Shine, baby, shine

Maryann Cusimano Love

#5. But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. In this kiss is declaration. In it is acceptance. In it is passion and perseverance, hope and happiness. In it is everything I've ever needed and everything I never thought I'd want. It's everything because she's everything.

M. Leighton

#7. I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest harm. Truth alone sets you free, not lies and omissions.

Jessica Dotta

#8. The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.

Taylor Swift

#9. Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

Laurel Nakadate

#10. I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Ken Follett

#11. I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

Dan Marino

#12. One can't step into the river twice

Ann Howard Creel

#13. Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

Joanna Trollope

#16. To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

William Shakespeare

#17. What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media.

Jim Lee

#18. There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

Arthur Eddington

#19. As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

Gavyn Davies

#20. I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

Jennifer Egan

#21. Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Sydney J. Harris

#22. I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed