1920 · Skopia

Showing 41 works across all media from 1920

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6

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

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 8.9

Fiction · Tragedy

The Age of Innocence

1920 · 336 pages

Newland Archer, engaged to the right New York girl, falls for her cousin the Countess Olenska, back from a ruinous European marriage. Old New York moves against them without ever raising its voice.

★ 7.2

Crazy Blues

1920

Seventy-five thousand copies in two months, Perry Bradford's tune, and Smith's voice opening the record industry to Black audiences.

★ 6.8

Woman Combing Her Hair

Portrait · Woodblock

Woman Combing Her Hair

Hashiguchi Goyo

1920 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Goyo oversaw every stage of his prints himself and finished only a handful before dying young. This is the one everyone knows.

★ 6.5

Fiction · Satire

Main Street

1920 · 898 pages

Carol Milford marries a doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to civilize it. The town wins, and Lewis made Main Street a byword for everything narrow and self-satisfied in American life.

★ 6.1

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

1920

★ 6.0

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.

Dulce et Decorum Est · 1920

★ 6.0

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 · 1920

★ 5.9

Political literature

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

1920

★ 5.5

Political literature

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

Walter Lippmann

1920

★ 5.1

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 · 1920

★ 4.4

SwaneeAl Jolson

Swanee

1920

Gershwin played it at a party, Jolson carried it into Sinbad, and it became Gershwin's biggest-selling song.

★ 4.2

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 3.9

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

Benito Mussolini

1920

★ 3.7

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1920

★ 3.7

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

1920

★ 3.7

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

1920

★ 3.6

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.

1920

★ 3.5

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

William Henry Bragg

1920

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

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

Warren G. Harding

1920

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine

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.

1920

★ 3.5

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

Frederick Delius

1920

★ 3.5

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 · 1920

★ 3.4

Historical literature

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

1920

★ 2.8

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

The newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

What Modern Liberty Means, The Atlantic · 1920

★ 2.6

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 2.2

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

1920

★ 2.0

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing-a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. THe Middle Age regarded skin color with mild curiousity; and even up into the eighteenth century we were hammering our national manikins into one, great, Universal Man, with fine frenzy which ignored color and race even more than birth. Today we have changed all that, and the world in a sudden, emotional conversion has discovered that it is white and by that token, wonderful!

1920

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge

1920

★ 1.9

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

Look for the silver lining Whene'er a cloud Appears in the blue.

1920

★ 1.9

There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.

1920

★ 1.9

Historical literature

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

1920

★ 1.9

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

1920

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure-wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Main Street · 1920

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...coax us, "Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you." For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now-and we're going to try our hands at it.

Main Street · 1920

★ 1.9

Afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

John Galsworthy

1920

★ 1.8

Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself.

1920

★ 1.2

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.

1920

★ 1.1

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.

The Record Lie · 1920

★ 1.0

Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

1920

★ 0.8