Nineteenth Century famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
-- Alberto Moravia -
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.
-- Daniel Yergin -
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
-- John McGahern -
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,
-- Mark Kurlansky -
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
-- William Weld -
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
-- William Winwood Reade