{"quotes":[{"text":"Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["19th-century","actors","filming","improvisation","language","movies"],"id":19265,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.","author":"Lester B. Pearson","tags":["1897","1972","19th-century","20th-century","politics","quote"],"id":27544,"author_id":"Lester+B.+Pearson"},{"text":"Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies' dresses, beer, restaurants—all bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs.With much that was spoken and written on the subject Konyshev did not agree in detail. He saw that the Slav question had become one of those fashionable diversions which, ever succeeding one another, serve to occupy Society; he saw that too many people took up the question from interested motives. He admitted that the papers published much that was unnecessary and exaggerated with the sole aim of drawing attention to themselves, each outcrying the other. He saw that amid this general elation in Society those who were unsuccessful or discontented leapt to the front and shouted louder than anyone else: Commanders-in-Chief without armies, Ministers without portfolios, journalists without papers, and party leaders without followers. He saw that there was much that was frivolous and ridiculous; but he also saw and admitted the unquestionable and ever-growing enthusiasm which was uniting all classes of society, and with which one could not help sympathizing. The massacre of our coreligionists and brother Slavs evoked sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against their oppressors. And the heroism of the Serbs and Montenegrins, fighting for a great cause, aroused in the whole nation a desire to help their brothers not only with words but by deeds.Also there was an accompanying fact that pleased Koznyshev. It was the manifestation of public opinion. The nation had definitely expressed its wishes. As Koznyshev put it, ' the soul of the nation had become articulate.' The more he went into this question, the clearer it seemed to him that it was a matter which would attain enormous proportions and become epoch-making.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["19th-century","manners","novel","realist-fiction","society-novel"],"id":44874,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"Washington was no politician as we understand the word,' replied Ratcliffe abruptly. 'He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.","author":"Henry Adams","tags":["19th-century","democracy","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","society"],"id":93149,"author_id":"Henry+Adams"},{"text":"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["16th-century","19th-century","20th-century","21st-century","advert","advertise","advertisement","century","current","food-for-thought","inspirational","inspirations","israelmore-ayivor","market","motivational","motivations","personal-development","present","products"],"id":97011,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a light-blue silk cloak on my shoulder, and a black eagle's plume waving from my hat, and a big sword, and a falcon, and a lance, and a prancing horse, so that I might go about and gladden the eyes of the people. Why should we all try to look like ants crawling over a dust-heap? Why shouldn't we dress a little gayly? I am sure if we did we should be happier. True, it is a little thing, but we are a little race, and what is the use of our pretending otherwise and spoiling fun? Let philosophers get themselves up like old crows if they like. But let me be a butterfly.","author":"Jerome K. Jerome","tags":["19th-century","appearance","beauty","clothes","fashion","gaiety","humour","men"],"id":129366,"author_id":"Jerome+K.+Jerome"},{"text":"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["19th-century","caliban","nineteenth-century","realism","romantic","romanticism","shakespeare"],"id":154181,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the 'crime' of Judaism into the fashionable 'vice' of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. Jews had been able to escape from Judaism into conversion; from Jewishness there was no escape. A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["1968","19th-century","antisemitism","crime","jewishness","vice"],"id":235309,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark of divinity which we call Myself; when clodhoppers and peasants, and tramps and thieves, and millionaires and -- sometimes -- Negroes, became throbbing souls whose warm pulsing life touched us so nearly that we half gasped with surprise, crying, 'Thou too! Hast Thou seen Sorrow and the dull waters of Hopelessness? Hast Thou known Life?","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["19th-century","humaneness","personality"],"id":244009,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.","author":"Fred Whitehead","tags":["19th-century","19th-century-america","american-history","atheism","freethought","history","secularism","social-movement"],"id":245263,"author_id":"Fred+Whitehead"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}