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
live-life assuming reason
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
humor practice growth
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.
adversity down-and invention
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.
vices harm mankind
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
money-isnt-everything
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
blow tvs privacy
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
stars men hands
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.
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.
common-sense creative way
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.
names important liberty
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
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.
essence inspire special
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.
writing gossip columnists
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
american-critic
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.