Modern Trivial

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or trivial:

“So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)