"One of the misfortunes of our time is……" — Louis Kronenberger
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well."
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Louis Kronenberger
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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
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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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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has…
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More False Quotes
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
— Matthew Arnold
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— Saint Augustine
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in…
— Sai Baba
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
— Stanley Baldwin
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it…
— Alan Ball
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
— Roseanne Barr
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of…
— Saul Bellow
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It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and…
— John Belushi
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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