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 |