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
Louis Kronenberger quotes about
revolution conformity rebellion
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
ambitious busy stairs
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
failure thinking cost
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.
ego trying veils
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
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.
friendship may close-friends
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
rose tides culinary
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.
grief dark night
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.
writing men judging
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
sleep solitude competition
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.
moral action ethical
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
live-life assuming reason
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
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.