Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Aging, Age, Old Age
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
Topics: Shame
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Aging, Age
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Fanaticism
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Vanity
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
Topics: Self-Knowledge, Honesty, Awareness
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
—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
Topics: Progress
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Acceptance
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
—Louis Kronenberger
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Morals
There seems to be a great 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
Topics: Belief
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Boredom
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Writing
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Arts, Art, Artists
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
—Louis Kronenberger
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.
—Louis Kronenberger
Topics: Ambition
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
Topics: America, Advertising
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- Bayard Taylor American Poet
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