"Highly educated bores are by far the worst;……" — Louis Kronenberger
"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
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Louis Kronenberger
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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria,…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied…
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me…
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave…
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But…
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
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