Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

    “It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)