Louis Kronenberger quotes

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. (Louis Kronenberger)

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Louis Kronenberger

In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

Louis Kronenberger

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Louis Kronenberger

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger

On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

Louis Kronenberger

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Louis Kronenberger

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance. (Louis Kronenberger)

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Louis Kronenberger

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Louis Kronenberger

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Louis Kronenberger

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

Louis Kronenberger

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Louis Kronenberger

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis Kronenberger

There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it.

Louis Kronenberger

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Louis Kronenberger

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Louis Kronenberger

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Occupation: American Critic
Born: 1904
Died: 1980
Quotes count: 20
Wikipedia: Louis Kronenberger

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