Louis Kronenberger Quotes


"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Art, Lie, Thought, Deep, Tears)

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Age, Trouble)

"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
(Related: People, Effect, May)

"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
(Related: American, Being, Gentleman)

"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
"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
(Related: Life, Poetry, Advertising, America, Prose, Trouble)

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Age, Time, Goal, Old)

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Fact, Modesty, Nothing, Vanity)

"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
(Related: People, Answers, Anxiety, Today, Want)

"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Individualism, Innocence, Unconscious)

"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Detail)

"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
(Related: Time, Shame)

"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Business, Gossip)