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
sick age ethics
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.
love-relationship old-love our-relationship
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
effort age bling
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.
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.
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.
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.
american-critic
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
age american-critic
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
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.
american-critic art tears
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.