Top 20 Nineteenth Century Love Quotes
#1. Madame, you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.
Catherine The Great
#2. It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#3. While we may operate every day under the illusions of control, even our best efforts at maintaining it ultimately fall short.
William McDavid
#4. Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#5. The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#6. His "Harmonian Court of Love," in which individuals are algorithmically paired for romantic and sexual liaisons, sounded preposterous in the middle nineteenth century. Today it is the banal reality of online dating (eHarmony). Since
Chris Jennings
#7. Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.
Lauren Willig
#9. The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.
Nathaniel Branden
#10. Hardy classified A Pair of Blue Eyes among 'Romances and Fantasies'. A favourite of Tennyson, its melancholy treatment of youth, love and death is expressive of late nineteenth-century susceptibilities. Not unnaturally in an early novel, Hardy draws freely on his own life.
Geoffrey Harvey
#11. Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
Herman Melville
#12. Her advice is much like pepper, I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.
L.M. Montgomery
#13. We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.
Rosie O'Donnell
#14. A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ...
Henry Garza
#16. To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.
Maryrose Wood
#17. He missed having a wild green world on his doorstep - no rabbits or pheasants or badgers.
Kate Atkinson
#18. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.
Czeslaw Milosz
#19. At its core, black theology is predicated on the assertion that God has a unique relationship with African Americans. God is not a passive bystander in human history but rather an active participant in the struggles of oppressed and dispossessed people.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#20. Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself?
Pico Iyer
