Modern Trivial

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or trivial:

“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

“Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.”
—John Fowles (b. 1926)