Louis Kronenberger Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Country, Order, Firsts

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• Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Art, Hate, Culture

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• Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

  Louis Kronenberger

  Hysteria, People, Age

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• 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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Goal, Age, Weapons

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 65, 1954.

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• Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Children, Self, Ends

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Inspirational, Moving, Progress

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Beauty, Skins, Firsts

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• 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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Anxiety, Mind

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• Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Gossip, Reputation, Good Company

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Blow, Tvs, Privacy

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Eye, Years

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• The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Writing, Men, Judging

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• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Guy, Gentleman, Want

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 120, 1954.

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• London ... remains a man's city where New York is chiefly a woman's. London has whole streets that cater to men's wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Men, Cities

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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