1892

Explore 13 quotes from the year 1892

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic

Stars The human condition

Speaker

Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Lady Windermere's Fan

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Topic

Telling the truth Lying

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Source

The Idler

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jerome, Jerome K. "The Idler's Club." The Idler. London: Chatto & Windus, Feb. 1892.

Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

Henrik Ibsen

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Topic

Delusion Dreams

Speaker

Hilda Wangel

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Source

The Master Builder

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Norwegian

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. Bygmester Solness [The Master Builder]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1892, act 3.

Current Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. "The Master Builder." The Master Builder and Other Plays, translated by Barbara Haveland and Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 3.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic

Life experience Mistakes

Speaker

Dumby

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Lady Windermere's Fan

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

Every one lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Making a living The human condition

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Across the Plains

Genre

Travel writing Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892, ch. 9.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic

Men and women Friendship

Speaker

Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Lady Windermere's Fan

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Purpose of youth Trying new things

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892, ch. 10.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Topic

Personal responsibility

Speaker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Source

Speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "The Solitude of Self." Congress meeting. 18 Jan. 1892, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Solitude of Self. Paris Press, 2000.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

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Topic

Christianity Paganism

Speaker

Sidney

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

Children of the Ghetto

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. The Jewish Publication Society, 1892, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto. Wayne State University Press, 1998, bk. 2, ch. 6.

I was walking along the road with two friends.
The sun was setting.
I felt a breath of melancholy-Suddenly the sky turned blood-red.
I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired-
looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town.
My friends walked on-I stood there, trembling with fear.
And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature.

Edvard Munch

Describing the experience that led him to paint "The Scream".

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Author

Edvard Munch

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Vision

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Munch, Edvard. Diary entry. 22 Jan. 1892.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush-the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

Henry Lawson

The Bush Undertaker

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Topic

Australia

Author

Henry Lawson

Source

The Bush Undertaker

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Antipodean, 1892.

Current Citation

Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Penguin Books, 1986.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Ida B. Wells

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Topic

Knowledge is power Freedom of the press

Author

Ida B. Wells

Source

Southern Horrors

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wells, Ida B. "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases." 5 Oct. 1892, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Wells, Ida B. "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases." Great Speeches by American Women. Dover Publications, 2012.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sherlock Holmes

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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Topic

Rural vs. urban

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Strand Magazine. London, 1892.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.