55 Quotes by Louis Auchincloss

The crowd has a way of being right.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.