Quote

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

Louis Kronenberger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Company
Someone
Wells
Well
Even
Gossips
Good
Gossip
Never
Wit
Reputation

More quotes by Louis Kronenberger

Image
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.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
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.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: Do it yourself is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
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
Image
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
Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
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
Image
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
It is disgusting to pick your teeth what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
Louis Kronenberger
Image
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.
Louis Kronenberger