Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Bourgeois Copy Share Image
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. — Louis Kronenberger Brilliant Copy Share Image
Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first… — Louis Kronenberger Country Copy Share Image
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep,… — Louis Kronenberger Competition Copy Share Image
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one… — Louis Kronenberger Close friends Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Adversity Copy Share Image
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to… — Louis Kronenberger Advertising Copy Share Image
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never… — Louis Kronenberger Boast Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person… — Louis Kronenberger Attention Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he… — Louis Kronenberger Essence Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger American life Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs. — Louis Kronenberger Ambitious Copy Share Image
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger Brain Copy Share Image
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. — Louis Kronenberger Business Copy Share Image
Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent. — Louis Kronenberger Children Copy Share Image
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything. — Louis Kronenberger Funny Copy Share Image
In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts. — Louis Kronenberger Art Copy Share Image
Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all. — Louis Kronenberger Culture Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. — Louis Kronenberger Fanaticism Copy Share Image
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. — Louis Kronenberger Individualism Copy Share Image
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
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