Authors born between 1850 and 1900
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Author (number of quotes) | Description |
A | |
Adams, Franklin Pierce (2) | American columnist |
Adenauer, Konrad (2) | German politician |
Adler, Alfred (2) | Austrian psychotherapist |
Ady, Endre (2) | Hungarian poet and publicist |
Agar, Herbert (1) | American journalist |
Albright, Herm (1) | German-born American painter |
Allen, Fred (2) | American comedian |
Allen, James (2) | New Zealand politician and diplomat |
Allport, Gordon W. (1) | American psychologist |
Apollinaire, Guillaume (1) | French author, poet, criticist |
Asch, Sholem (1) | Polish-born American novelist |
Atkinson, Brooks (1) | American theatre critic |
B | |
B. DeMille, Cecil (1) | American director, producer and actor |
Babcock, Maltbie Davenport (1) | American clergyman and writer |
Babits, Mihály (1) | Hungarian poet, author and translator |
Bachelard, Gaston (2) | French philosopher |
Bagnold, Enid (1) | British author |
Baldwin, Faith (1) | American author |
Barrie, J. M. (2) | Scottish author and dramatist |
Bartók, Béla (3) | Hungarian composer and pianist |
Beerbohm, Max (1) | English essayist, parodist |
Belloc, Hilaire (1) | French-born English poet |
Benson, Edward Frederic (1) | English novelist, biographer and short story writer |
Berenson, Bernard (1) | American art historian |
Bergson, Henri (1) | French philosopher |
Berlin, Irving (1) | American composer |
Beston, Henry (1) | American author and scientist |
Betti, Ugo (1) | Italian judge |
Blake, Eubie (1) | American composer, lyricist and pianist |
Bohr, Niels (9) | Danish physicist |
Boom, Corrie ten (1) | Dutch Christian author |
Borland, Hal (3) | American author |
Born, Max (1) | Nobel-díjas German physicist |
Boutroux, Pierre (1) | French mathematician |
Bowen, Elizabeth (1) | English-Irish-born author |
Bradley, Omar Nelson (1) | American general |
Bragg, William Henry (1) | English physicist and chemist |
Braque, Georges (1) | French painter and sculptor |
Brogan, Denis William (1) | English author and historian |
Bryan, William Jennings (1) | American politician |
Burns, George (5) | Amerikai author, comedian |
Butler, Nicholas Murray (1) | American philosopher |
C | |
Cabell, James Branch (1) | American author |
Cameron, William J. (1) | Journalist |
Carnegie, Dale (6) | American author |
Carrel, Alexis (1) | French surgeon and biologist |
Carver, George Washington (2) | American scientist |
Casson, Herbert (1) | Canadian journalist |
Cather, Willa (3) | American author |
Chandler, Raymond (2) | American novelist |
Chanel, Coco (9) | French fashion designer |
Chaplin, Charlie (6) | English actor, director |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (2) | English author |
Christie, Agatha (18) | English author |
Churchill, Winston (20) | English politician, author |
Cocteau, Jean (4) | French poet, author, painter, actor, composer and director |
Colby, Frank Moore (1) | American author, historian |
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle (1) | French author |
Conrad, Joseph (2) | Polish-born English author |
Coolidge, Calvin (1) | the 30th President of the United States |
Crowley, Aleister (2) | English-born occultist, author |
Cummings, Edward Estlin (2) | American author, poet, painter |
Curie, Marie (1) | Polish-born French physicist |
D | |
Dahlberg, Edward (4) | American author |
Darrow, Clarence (1) | American lawyer |
de Broglie, Louis (1) | French physicist |
Dobzhansky, Theodosius (2) | Russian-born American geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
Doren, Mark Van (1) | American writer, poet |
Douglas, Norman (1) | English author |
Doyle, Arthur Conan (18) | Scottish-born author |
Dunne, Finley Peter (1) | American author and comedian |
Durant, Will (1) | American author, historian, philosopher |
E | |
Eastman, Max (2) | American author, activist |
Einstein, Albert (42) | German-born theoretical physicist |
Eisenhower, Dwight David (2) | the 34th President of the United States |
Eliot, T. S. (4) | American poet |
Ellis, Henry Havelock (3) | English psychologist and author |
Ertz, Susan (1) | English author |
Esar, Evan (1) | American comedian |
F | |
Feather, William (1) | American author |
Ferrari, Enzo Anselmo (1) | Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur |
Fields, William Claude (3) | American actor and comedian |
Firestone, Harvey Samuel (1) | American businessman |
Fischer, Ernst (1) | Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician |
Fisher, Ronald (1) | English statistician, biologist and geneticist |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (2) | American author |
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Rose (1) | John F. Kennedy`s mother |
Foch, Ferdinand (1) | French politician |
Ford, Henry (11) | American businessman |
Freud, Sigmund (4) | Austrian neurologist |
Fromm, Erich (6) | German-American philosopher, psychologist |
Frost, Robert (7) | American poet |
Fuller, Richard Buckminster (2) | American architect, poet, author, inventor |
G | |
Gandhi, Mahatma (17) | pen name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian jurist and politician |
Gasset, José Ortega y (2) | Spanish philosopher |
Gibran, Khalil (1) | Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer |
Gide, André (2) | French author |
Glasgow, Ellen (1) | American novelist |
Goddard, Robert Hutchings (2) | American physicist |
Goldwyn, Samuel (1) | American producer |
Graham, Martha (1) | American dancer and choreographer |
H | |
Hayek, Friedrich (13) | British economist and philosopher |
Hemingway, Ernest (10) | American author, journalist |
Henry, O. (1) | pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter |
Herold, Don (1) | American comedian, author, illustrator, and cartoonist |
Hilbert, David (3) | German mathematician |
Hildebrand, Joel (1) | American educator |
Hill, Napoleon (1) | American author |
Hitchcock, Alfred (1) | English director, producer, screenwriter |
Holliwell, Raymond (1) | American author |
Hornsby, Rogers (1) | American baseball player and coach |
Howe, Edgar Watson (1) | American author |
Hubbard, Elbert (18) | American author and philosopher |
Hubbard, Frank McKinney (2) | American cartoonist, journalist, comedian |
Hubble, Edwin (1) | American astronomer |
Hurston, Zora Neale (1) | American singer |
I | |
Iles, George (1) | American author |
J | |
Jerome, Jerome K. (1) | English writer and humorist |
Jordan, David Starr (1) | American biologist and educator |
Joyce, James (2) | Irish-born poet, author, criticist |
Jung, Carl Gustav (4) | Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist |
K | |
Kafka, Franz (2) | German author |
Kazantzakis, Nikos (1) | Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher |
Keller, Helen (10) | American deafblind author, political activist, and lecturer |
Kettering, Charles Franklin (1) | American scientist and philosopher |
Keynes, John Maynard (2) | English mathematician, economist |
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard (3) | English author and poet |
Kodály, Zoltán (4) | Hungarian composer |
Kosztolányi, Dezső (3) | Hungarian author, poet, translator, journalist |
L | |
Lawrence, D. H. (8) | full name David Herbert Richards Lawrence, English author, poet, literary critic and painter |
Leavitt, Robert Keith (1) | American author |
Letterman, Elmer G. (2) | American businessman and author |
Lewis, Joseph (1) | American freethinker and activist |
Lewis, Sinclair (1) | American author |
Livermore, Jesse Lauriston (1) | American stock trader |
London, Jack (3) | American author |
Long, Haniel Clark (1) | American poet and author |
Lugosi, Béla (3) | Hungarian-American actor |
Luxemburg, Rosa (1) | German philosopher, economist and social activist |
M | |
M. Barrie, James (1) | Scottish author and dramatist |
MacArthur, Douglas (1) | American general |
Macmillan, Maurice Harold (1) | English politician |
Maeterlinck, Maurice (2) | Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist |
Maltz, Maxwell (1) | American cosmetic surgeon and author |
Mann, Thomas (1) | German author |
Márai, Sándor (10) | Hungarian author |
Marden, Orison Swett (1) | American author |
Marquis, Don (3) | full name Donald Robert Perry Marquis, American comedian and author |
Marx, Chico (1) | American actor |
Marx, Groucho (3) | American actor and comedian |
Mathewson, Christy (1) | American baseball player |
Maugham, William Somerset (4) | English author |
Mauriac, Francois (1) | French author |
Maurois, Andre (1) | French author, historian |
McKay, David Oman (1) | American religious leader and educator |
Mencken, Henry Louis (12) | American author, criticist |
Menninger, Karl Augustus (1) | American psychiatrist |
Miller, Henry (1) | American author and painter |
Mitchell, Margaret (1) | American author |
Mizner, Wilson (2) | American playwright |
Montgomery, Lucy Maud (3) | Canadian author |
Moore, George (1) | Irish-born author and poet |
Morgenstern, Christian (1) | German author and poet |
Morley, Christopher (3) | American journalist, author and poet |
Mumford, Lewis (1) | American historian, philosopher of science |
N | |
Nathan, George Jean (2) | American criticist |
O | |
Oppenheim, James (1) | American poet, author |
P | |
Park, Robert (1) | American sociologist |
Parker, Dorothy (1) | American author, poet |
Parker, Gilbert (1) | Canadian-born English author and politician |
Patton, George Smith (2) | American general |
Peale, Norman Vincent (1) | Writer and clergyman |
Pearsall Smith, Logan (1) | American author |
Pessoa, Fernando (2) | Portuguese poet |
Piaget, Jean (1) | Swiss psychologist |
Picasso, Pablo (7) | Spanish painter and sculptor |
Pine, Albert (1) | American author |
Pinero, Arthur Wing (1) | English actor, author and director |
Planck, Max (2) | German physicist |
Poincaré, Henri (8) | French mathematician, physicist and philosopher |
Pollock, Channing (1) | American playwright, criticist |
Pound, Ezra (2) | American poet |
Prochnow, Herbert V. (1) | American banking executive |
Proust, Marcel (5) | French author, criticist |
Q | |
Quillen, Robert (1) | American author and comedian |
R | |
Rathbone, Basil (1) | South Africa-born English actor |
Renard, Jules (3) | French author |
Rilke, Rainer Maria (3) | Austrian poet |
Rimbaud, Arthur (1) | French poet |
Rogers, Will (2) | American comedian, actor |
Rommel, Erwin (1) | German general and military theorist |
Roosevelt, Eleanor (16) | American politician |
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (3) | the 32nd President of the United States |
Roosevelt, Theodore (10) | the 26th President of the United States |
Rowland, Helen (2) | American comedian and journalist |
Russell, Bertrand (31) | English mathematician, philosopher |
Ruth, Babe (1) | American baseball player |
S | |
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (11) | French author and pilot |
Sandburg, Carl (6) | American author and poet |
Santayana, George (10) | American philosopher, author, poet |
Sayers, Dorothy L. (1) | English crime writer, poet |
Service, Robert (1) | English-Canadian author and poet |
Shaw, George Bernard (19) | Irish-born playwright |
Sheen, Fulton John (1) | American bishop |
Shinn, Florence Scovel (1) | American illustrator and author |
Sitwell, Edith (1) | British poet and critic |
Smith, Al (1) | American politician |
Stein, Gertrude (2) | American author |
Stengel, Casey (1) | American baseball player and coach |
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1) | Scottish writer and poet |
Szent-Györgyi, Albert (2) | Hungarian biochemist |
Szilárd, Leó (1) | Hungarian physicist |
T | |
Teale, Edmund Way (1) | American naturalist, photographer, writer |
Temple Bell, Eric (1) | Scottish mathematician |
Thurber, James (1) | American author |
Tressell, Robert (2) | pen name of Robert Croker, Irish writer |
Trevelyan, George M. (1) | British historian |
Truman, Harry Spencer (2) | the 33rd President of the United States |
U | |
Unamuno, Miguel de (1) | Spanish author, poet, philosopher |
V | |
van Gogh, Vincent (4) | Dutch painter |
Vygotsky, Lev S. (1) | Russian psychologist |
W | |
Watson, Thomas John (1) | American businessman |
West, Mae (5) | American actress |
West, Rebecca (2) | pen name of Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author |
Wharton, Edith (2) | American author |
Whitehead, Alfred North (5) | English-born American philosopher |
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (2) | American author, poet |
Wilde, Oscar (88) | Irish poet, author, playwright |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1) | American author |
Wilder, Thornton Niven (6) | American author |
Wilson, Woodrow (3) | the 28th President of the United States |
Winchell, Walter (1) | American commentator |
Woolf, Virginia (6) | English author |
Wright, Frank Lloyd (2) | American architect |
Y | |
Yeats, William Butler (3) | Irish poet, author |
Z | |
Zermelo, Ernst (1) | German mathematician |
Zweig, Stefan (1) | Austrian author, poet, translator |