81 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

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.

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.

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.