1920

Explore 36 quotes from the year 1920

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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Topic

Dissolution Decline of civilization Societal collapse Political polarization Politics

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

The Second Coming

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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Topic

Decline of civilization Moral decline

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

The Second Coming

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.

Ring Lardner

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Topic

Parents and children

Author

Ring Lardner

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lardner, Ring. "The Young Immigrunts." Ring Lardner: Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 1997. Originally published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1920, ch. 10.

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

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Topic

Horrors of war War

Author

Wilfred Owen

Source

Dulce et Decorum Est

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

Current Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Idea of Progress

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Topic

Animal cruelty Man and animals

Speaker

William Ralph Inge

Source

The Idea of Progress

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Inge, William Ralph. "The Idea of Progress." Romanes Lecture. 27 May 1920, The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex.

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Topic

Nineteenth Amendment Voting rights Women's rights Civil Rights Amendments

Source

Constitution of the United States

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

The United States Constitution. Amend. 19, sec. 1.

Current Citation

"The Constitution of the United States." The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 19, sec. 1.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

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Topic

Journalism

Author

Walter Lippmann

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lippmann, Walter. "Journalism and the Higher Law." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Woman and the New Race

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Topic

Women's rights

Author

Margaret Sanger

Source

Woman and the New Race

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.

The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

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Topic

Shoot your shot Missed opportunities Love

Speaker

Amory Blaine

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

This Side of Paradise

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 2, ch. 2.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Topic

Stages of life Aging Convictions

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Medium

Short story

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Saturday Evening Post, May 1920.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922, edited by Jackson Bryer. Library of America, 2000.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed.

Benito Mussolini

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Topic

Fascism

Author

Benito Mussolini

Language

Italian

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Mussolini, Benito. Editorial. Il Popolo d'Italia, 1920.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Topic

Anti-colonialism Anti-imperialism

Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

Source

Darkwater

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. Harcourt, Brace And Howe, 1920.

Current Citation

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

D.H. Lawrence

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Topic

Nature Grass Rabbits

Speaker

Rupert Birkin

Author

D.H. Lawrence

Source

Women in Love

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Thomas Seltzer, 1920, ch. 11.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

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Topic

American politics America

Speaker

Warren G. Harding

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Harding, Warren G. "Readjustment." Home Market Club meeting. 14 May 1920, Boston, MA, USA.

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

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Topic

Science and religion Purpose of religion Religion Purpose of science Science

Author

William Henry Bragg

Source

The World of Sound

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bragg, William Henry. "Sound in War." c. Christmas 1919, The Royal Institution, Westminster, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound

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Topic

Horrors of war World War I

Author

Ezra Pound

Source

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music.

Frederick Delius

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Topic

Limits of language Power of music Music

Author

Frederick Delius

Source

At the Cross-Roads The Sackbut

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Delius. "At the Cross-Roads." The Sackbut, Sept. 1920.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Topic

Stiff upper lip Emotion English people

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Source

Notes on the English Character Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Forster, E.M. "Notes on the English Character." Abinger Harvest. Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.

What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-blind or not-a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.

Clarence S. Day

This Simian World

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Topic

Human evolution Human origins

Author

Clarence S. Day

Source

This Simian World

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Day, Clarence. This Simian World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1920, ch. 19.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee

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Topic

Art

Author

Paul Klee

Genre

Historical literature

Language

German

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Klee, Paul. "Schöpferische Konfession [Creative Confession]." Tribüne der Kunst und der Zeit. Eine Schriftensammlung [Tribune of Art and Time. A Font Collection]. Berlin: Von Kasimir Edschmid, 1920.

Current Citation

Klee, Paul. "Creative Confession." Creative Confession and Other Writings. Tate, 2014.