For tens of millions of people television has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
– Louis Kronenberger
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
– Louis Kronenberger
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
– Louis Kronenberger
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
– Louis Kronenberger
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
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
– 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
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
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
– Louis Kronenberger
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
– Louis Kronenberger
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
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
– Louis Kronenberger
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.
– Louis Kronenberger
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.