"Someone who gossips well has a reputation for……" — Louis Kronenberger
"Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip."
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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
Louis Kronenberger has 58 quotes on this site.
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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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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
— Saint Augustine
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
— Teresa of Avila
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
— Joe Baca
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
— Russell Baker
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Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
— Stephen Baldwin
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies.…
— Drew Barrymore
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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love…
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