Louis Kronenberger Quotes

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In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
— Louis Kronenberger Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry Into American Life

art

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
— Louis Kronenberger The Cart and the Horse

money

It's the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
It's the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
— Louis Kronenberger The Cart and the Horse

gossip columnists

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
— Louis Kronenberger Company Manners

individuality innocence

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
— Louis Kronenberger Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry Into American Life

conformity

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

boring people

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 quote.
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 Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry Into American Life

morals

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy.
— Louis Kronenberger Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life

America advertising

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 quote.
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

honesty

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 quote.
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 Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life

beliefs religion

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 quote.
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 Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life

America England

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
— Louis Kronenberger Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life

eccentricity

Most people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. They want answers that are, in effect, escapes. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Most people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. They want answers that are, in effect, escapes.
— Louis Kronenberger The Cart and the Horse

answers

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.
— Louis Kronenberger Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry Into American Life

humor