The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. — Louis Kronenberger Assuming 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
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 Adjustment Copy Share Image
London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants.… — Louis Kronenberger Cities 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
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
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and… — Louis Kronenberger Diminish 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 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 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
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
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. — Louis Kronenberger Clams 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
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat… — Louis Kronenberger Allegiance 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
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name. — Louis Kronenberger Committed 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
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger Beauty Copy Share Image
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger Barbarians Copy Share Image
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything. — Louis Kronenberger Funny Copy Share Image
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Humility Copy Share Image
