Louis Kronenberger

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#every #excellent #goal #least #old

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. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#behave #believe #cease #effect #great

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#business #columnist #gossip #his #none

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

— Louis Kronenberger

#bores #boring #detail #educated #far

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

— Louis Kronenberger

#deep #lie #tears #thought #too

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#individualism #innocence #like #must #rather

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#answers #anxiety #away #disturbing #honest

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

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. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#getting #killed #misfortunes #much #off

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

— Louis Kronenberger

#before #blow #danger #death #given