Louis Kronenberger
Louis Kronenberger
Louis Kronenbergerwas an American critic and author. He was a novelist and biographer, and wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth9 December 1904
CountryUnited States of America
american-critic art tears
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
american-critic display greater
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
age american-critic
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
american-critic
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
change distance moving
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.
talking people together
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.
country order firsts
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.
beauty skins firsts
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
goal age weapons
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.
money-isnt-everything
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
gold use teeth
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
names important liberty
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
thinking civilization desire
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.
success winning sight
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.