“The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.” CenturyPeriodsDiscoveryThanksEngineering19th CenturyRailway Author:Joe Harris
“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.” MindKindFilmGivenCenturyPeriodsHorrorHollywoodDistanceSettingSettingsTypical19th Century1930s Author:Andrew Tudor
“Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.” IfsBookStatesCharacterTodayGuyPassionEvilLiteratureWonderfulWrittenCenturyFlowerPeriodsYeahIncrediblesWorking ItTimeless19th CenturyAgelessFrench LiteratureBaudelaireDeep Passion Author:Johnny Depp
“In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'” FiveCenturyPeriodsConstitutionAskingSorryCopiesCartoonLibrarianEnglishmen19th CenturyI Am SorryAm Sorry Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little Ice Age' that followed the medieval warm period and ended in the 19th century.” LittlesAgeNaturalCenturyPossibilityPeriodsWarmDecadesIceMedieval19th CenturyReboundIce Age Author:Steven F. Hayward
“So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.” PeopleYearsHumansHas BeensGoneModernCenturyDevelopmentPeriodsMoonLateDiscoveryHorseInnovationErasCoveredCows19th CenturyMost AmazingCamelsWagonsAccelerationModern Era Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was the question of why it had attracted such a following in the 18th Century. It's less mysterious that it attracted a following in the Romantic period, and in the 19th Century, but the early 18th Century when the Rationalists fell in love with it...that was mysterious. What I wanted to look at was the forms of enchantment.” MindLooksBookStoriesWantedFormCenturyPeriodsFollowingMysterious19th CenturyEnchantment18th Century Author:Marina Warner
“In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.” FeltDifferencesCenturyPeriodsMemoirDislike19th CenturyLoathing Author:Malcolm Muggeridge