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
ego trying veils
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
american-critic art tears
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
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.
age american-critic
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
american-critic
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
moving fishing forever
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.
change distance moving
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.
talking people together
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.
country order firsts
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.
beauty skins firsts
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
thinking anxiety mind
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.
goal age weapons
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.
money-isnt-everything
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
gold use teeth
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.