Authors born between 1800 and 1850
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| Author (number of quotes) | Description |
| A | |
| Adams, Henry Brooks (7) | American author, journalist, historian |
| Alcott, Louisa May (6) | American author |
| Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1) | American author and poet |
| Amiel, Henri-Frédéric (8) | Swiss philosopher, poet and criticist |
| Andersen, Hans Christian (1) | Danish author |
| Arany, János (3) | Hungarian poet |
| Arnold, Matthew (2) | English poet |
| Auerbach, Berthold (1) | German-Jewish poet, author |
| B | |
| Bagehot, Walter (2) | English businessman, author and journalist |
| Bancroft, George (1) | American historian and statesman |
| Baudelaire, Charles (3) | French poet |
| Beecher, Henry Ward (15) | American clergyman |
| Bell, Alexander Graham (1) | Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator |
| Bernard, Claude (1) | French physiologist |
| Billings, Josh (7) | American comedian |
| Bovee, Christian Nestell (3) | American author |
| Bronte, Charlotte (6) | English author |
| Browning, Robert (3) | English poet |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (2) | English author, poet, politician |
| Butler, Samuel (7) | English author |
| C | |
| Cantor, Georg (2) | German mathematician |
| Carnegie, Andrew (1) | Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist |
| Carroll, Lewis (6) | pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English author and poet |
| Chapin, Edwin Hubbell (2) | American priest, author |
| Chopin, Frédéric (1) | Polish composer |
| Clark, John Bates (1) | American economist |
| Clarke, James Freeman (1) | American theologian and author |
| Clerk Maxwell, James (1) | Scottish mathematician and physicist |
| Clifford, William Kingdon (1) | English mathematician and philosopher |
| Collins, John Churton (1) | English literary critic |
| D | |
| Dalberg-Acton, John (2) | English historian, politician, and writer |
| Darwin, Charles (11) | English scientist |
| Darwin, Francis (1) | English botanist |
| Degas, Edgar (1) | French painter, sculptor |
| Dickens, Charles (15) | English author |
| Dickinson, Emily (8) | American poet |
| Disraeli, Benjamin (10) | English author and politician |
| Dosztojevszkij, Fjodor Mihajlovics (3) | Russian author |
| Dumas, Alexandre (10) | French author |
| E | |
| Edison, Thomas (1) | American inventor and businessman |
| Edison, Thomas Alva (5) | American inventor and businessman |
| Edwards, Tryon (3) | American theologian |
| Eliot, George (7) | English author |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo (42) | American author, poet |
| F | |
| France, Anatole (6) | French author, poet |
| G | |
| Garfield, James Abram (1) | 20th President of the United States |
| H | |
| Harte, Bret (1) | American author and poet |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel (3) | American author |
| Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1) | American author and poet |
| Hugo, Victor (17) | French poet, writer |
| I | |
| Ibsen, Henrik (1) | Norwegian author |
| Ingersoll, Robert G. (8) | American political leader |
| J | |
| James, Henry (2) | American-born English author |
| James, William (6) | American psychologist and philosopher |
| Jókai, Mór (4) | Hungarian author |
| Jowett, Benjamin (1) | English theologian |
| K | |
| Kingsley, Charles (1) | English author and historian |
| Kossuth, Lajos (5) | Hungarian statesman |
| Kronecker, Leopold (1) | German mathematician |
| L | |
| Lincoln, Abraham (18) | the 16th President of the United States |
| Liszt, Ferenc (5) | Hungarian composer and pianist |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (6) | American author and poet |
| M | |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington (2) | English politician and author |
| MacDonald, George (1) | Scottish author and poet |
| Madách, Imre (8) | Hungarian author |
| Marden, Orison Swett (1) | American author |
| Meyers, Ernest (1) | Australian poet |
| Mill, John Stuart (2) | English philosopher |
| Monet, Claude (2) | French painter |
| Moody, Dwight Lyman (1) | American clergyman |
| Morris, William (1) | English artist, writer |
| Muir, John (1) | Scottish-born American scientist and author |
| N | |
| Newman, John Henry (1) | English-born priest |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich (13) | German philosopher |
| O | |
| Osler, William (1) | Canadian physician |
| P | |
| Petőfi, Sándor (11) | Hungarian poet, revolutionist |
| Pike, Albert (1) | American lawyer, author, soldier |
| Pissarro, Camille (1) | Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter |
| Poe, Edgar Allan (11) | American author, poet |
| R | |
| Renan, Ernest (1) | French philosopher |
| Rossetti, Christina (1) | English poet |
| Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1) | English poet |
| Roux, Joseph (1) | French poet |
| Ruskin, John (2) | English art critic |
| S | |
| Sand, George (1) | French author |
| Smiles, Samuel (1) | Scottish author and reformer |
| Spencer, Herbert (1) | English philosopher, biologist |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis (1) | Scottish writer and poet |
| Stoker, Bram (1) | Irish novelist |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1) | American author |
| T | |
| Tennyson, Alfred (2) | English poet |
| Thoreau, Henry David (49) | American author, philosopher |
| Tolstoy, Leo (4) | Russian writer |
| Twain, Mark (58) | American author |
| V | |
| Verne, Jules (2) | French author |
| Vörösmarty, Mihály (4) | Hungarian poet, author |
| W | |
| Whitman, Walt (7) | American poet |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf (1) | American poet |
| Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (2) | American author, poet |
| Winter, William (1) | American author |