The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. 
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought. 
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. 
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. 
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. 
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. 
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything. 
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. 
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. 
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. 
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. ![Louis Kronenberger quotes: For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/louis-kronenberger-quotes-1531570.jpg "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. 
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. 
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked. 
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter. 
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. 
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. 
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. 
Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent. 
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. 
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. 