Moderns Quotes
- The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. — Robert Frost
- If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. — William Penn
- From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
- I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been:… — Baroness Orczy
- It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. — Albert Einstein