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
moving progress vans
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
ambitious busy stairs
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
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.
men ice-cream law
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit.... Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.
real sin shame
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.
humility vanity facts
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
art lying tears
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.
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.
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.
life america advertising
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.
being-yourself being-single innocence
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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.
faith believe people
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
funny time goal
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.