The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Votes: 4
Gertrude SteinWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. Votes: 4
Robert Louis StevensonFew people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. Votes: 4
John Kenneth GalbraithDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Votes: 2
Oscar WildeNineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. Votes: 0
Jill LeporeNineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Votes: 0
Glen DuncanPosterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted. Votes: 0
John Maynard KeynesWhat Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellYou can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. Votes: 0
Susan SontagModern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. Votes: 0
Jill LeporeProust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustThe novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. Votes: 0
Alberto Moravia