Louis Kronenberger Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#d1433a4e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#3c0c65f7

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#5d8a5ca2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#c65f2049

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#7c936d26

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#6a1e54e1

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#b941fb3a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#f0d94dff

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
~Louis Kronenberger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#39f3160f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#83acac13

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#aacb2eb9

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#7f217a3f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#fd23193c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/louis-kronenberger-quotes/#c90bc405

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