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Eighteenth Century Quotes & Sayings

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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

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it. — David Douglas Duncan

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

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

Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you. — Deepak Chopra

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

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

He kicked my ass, but he also treated me like a person and not just some girl. — J.L. McCoy

Latin is an abomination! — Lew Wallace

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

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

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. — Colin Powell

He combed his hair like Elvis and had a slightly dangerous look, like a sailor two drinks into a shore leave that will end badly. — Stephen King

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

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

A man is the origin of his action. — Aristotle.

The meaning of our lives is to justify where our bosses spent their budget. — Lisa Schaefer

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

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

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

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs

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

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

I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces! — Caroline Winberg

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

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