Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.