Gentleman Quote by Louis Kronenberger

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, one's sleeplessness.

— Louis Kronenberger

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the…

— Louis Kronenberger

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

— Louis Kronenberger

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

— Louis Kronenberger

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there…

— Louis Kronenberger

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of…

— Louis Kronenberger

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

— Louis Kronenberger

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the…

— Louis Kronenberger

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down,…

— Louis Kronenberger

In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in…

— Louis Kronenberger