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Louis Kronenberger quotes: Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

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

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

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

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

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

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

Louis Kronenberger quotes: She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

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

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

Louis Kronenberger quotes: There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

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

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

Louis Kronenberger quotes: For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: 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.

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.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis Kronenberger quotes: In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.

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