“You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.”

“I can sympathise with everything, except suffering", cried Lord Harry, Shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.”

“I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.”

“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”

“More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.”

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”