Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

    In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
    A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)