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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
— Louis Kronenberger
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
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
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
— Louis Kronenberger
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
— Louis Kronenberger
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
— Louis Kronenberger
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
— Louis Kronenberger
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
— Louis Kronenberger
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
— Louis Kronenberger
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
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
— Louis Kronenberger
Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.
— Louis Kronenberger
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
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
— Louis Kronenberger
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
— Louis Kronenberger
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
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
— Louis Kronenberger
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
— Louis Kronenberger
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
— Louis Kronenberger
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
— 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
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
Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.
— Louis Kronenberger
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
— Louis Kronenberger
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
— Louis Kronenberger
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
— Louis Kronenberger
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
— 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.
— Louis Kronenberger
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
— Louis Kronenberger
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
— Louis Kronenberger
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
— Louis Kronenberger
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
— Louis Kronenberger
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
— Louis Kronenberger
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
— Louis Kronenberger
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
— Louis Kronenberger
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.
— Louis Kronenberger