Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger Be good 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 He man Copy Share Image
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. — Louis Kronenberger Assuming Copy Share Image
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. — Louis Kronenberger Clams 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
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger Brain 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
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
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
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
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 Aggressive 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 Confidential 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 Adjust Copy Share Image
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both… — Louis Kronenberger Art Copy Share Image
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs… — Louis Kronenberger Age 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 Chill Copy Share Image
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and… — Louis Kronenberger Comedy 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
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. — Louis Kronenberger Bores Copy Share Image
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger Disgusting Copy Share Image
We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined… — Louis Kronenberger Crank Copy Share Image
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. — Louis Kronenberger Conclusive Copy Share Image
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they… — Louis Kronenberger Company Copy Share Image
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to… — Louis Kronenberger Gentleman Copy Share Image
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television… — Louis Kronenberger Activity Copy Share Image
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole… — Louis Kronenberger Fame Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated… — Louis Kronenberger Class Copy Share Image
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such… — Louis Kronenberger Adjustment Copy Share Image
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost… — Louis Kronenberger American way Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Age 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
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger Adventurous Copy Share Image
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. — Louis Kronenberger Blow Copy Share Image
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. — Louis Kronenberger Brilliant Copy Share Image
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name. — Louis Kronenberger Committed Copy Share Image
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