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
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
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
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one… — Louis Kronenberger 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Action 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 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
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
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 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
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to… — Louis Kronenberger Englishman 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 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
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
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 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
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. — Louis Kronenberger 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 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 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
