81 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

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.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

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.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.