Century Quotes
Sayings on the shape of a hundred years.
These quotes reflect on what defines a century: a genre that came to dominate popular reading, a slow start to a literary tradition, and the outsized weight some events carry. See our Era quotes for related reflections.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
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Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Age Quotes
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
Centuries Quotes
I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
Era Quotes
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
Historical Quotes
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For more on how time gets measured and remembered, browse our Centuries quotes and our Historical quotes.
