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18th Quotes & Sayings

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The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. — Christian McKay

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head. — Barbra Streisand

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday. — Michelle Trachtenberg

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. — Paul Fry

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century. — Rebecca Miller

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. — Claudia Gray

Iran is 636,293 square miles in area. Iran is the 18th largest country in the world by size. — Mina Kelly

I am a person of the 18th century. — Cecilia Bartoli

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. — Gene Tierney

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. — Ernst W. Mayr

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century. — David Letterman

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. — William Manchester

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. — Matthew Stewart

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. — Barbara Ehrenreich

18th February 2015 — Terry Gillan

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. — Dexter Fletcher

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. — Robert Darnton

I begin with writing the first
sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood. — Thomas S. Monson

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. — Rebecca Solnit

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century. — Frank Lautenberg

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet. — Henning Mankell

Senator Goldwater would have been a great success in the movies - working for 18th century Fox. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall. — Dean Cavanagh

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on. — Steve Coogan

I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox. — Anna Freeman

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

Bill Cosby 18th. — Jonny Fox

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947. — Pranab Mukherjee

I win at golf. I'm a club champion many times at different clubs. I win at golf. I can sink the three-footer on the 18th hole when others can't. — Donald Trump

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. — Leslie Stephen

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age — Charles Bukowski

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation. — David McCullough

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. — Liv Tyler

It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment, — Paula Creamer

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises. — Simon Schama

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. — Seamus Heaney