• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic 1871-1922
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. prejudices
2. deplorable
3. novelty
4. fashion
5. fragile
6. grace

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. by : Marcel Proust

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