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I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession. — Lauren Willig

(optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century). — Kenan Malik

In eighteenth-century England, anchovy sauce became known as ketchup, katchup, or catsup. — Mark Kurlansky

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. — J.G. Ballard

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. — Maya Angelou

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses. — W.B.Yeats

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist — Fernand Leger

If tonight wasn't going to be the night - one week after my eighteenth birthday, with a limo to ourselves and no curfew - when was? — I. W. Gregorio

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed. — Greg Egan

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield

In the early eighteenth century, India owned 25% of the world's wealth. — Firas Alkhateeb

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare

It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers" ... (p. 58) — Jerry Z. Muller

Human beings were not, as the eighteenth-century philosophers supposed, wise and virtuous: they were apes. — Aldous Huxley

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram

Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century. — Edmund Morgan

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?"
"Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can. — Libba Bray

I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. — Sylvia Plath

Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C.V. Wedgwood

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. — Barry Goldwater

One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief, — Adam Nicolson

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. — Jean-Baptiste Say

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. — Brigid Brophy

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We licked batteries to feel a metallic jolt on the tongue, rumored to be one-eighteenth of an orgasm. — Emma Cline

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. — E. Jean Carroll

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. — George Saintsbury

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore De Balzac

By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster. — L.E. Sterling

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. — Plato

It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city. — Calvin Trillin

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. — Anatole France

Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century. — Tom Turner

Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples. — David McCullough

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal