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
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false… — Louis Kronenberger Cost Copy Share Image
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger Achievement 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 Accounts Copy Share Image
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease… — Louis Kronenberger Behave Copy Share Image
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger Age 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
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. — Louis Kronenberger Fanaticism Copy Share Image
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one… — Louis Kronenberger Awful Copy Share Image
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. — Louis Kronenberger Brilliant Copy Share Image
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark… — Louis Kronenberger Ego Copy Share Image
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter. — Louis Kronenberger Interesting Copy Share Image
“Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.… — Louis Kronenberger Humility 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
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away… — Louis Kronenberger Answers 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 Bases Copy Share Image
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Display 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
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
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger Misfortunes Copy Share Image
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. — Louis Kronenberger Age Copy Share Image
