(19 quotes found)
“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
“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
“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”
“Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.”
“For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.”
“In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice”
“Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.”
“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.”
“In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.”
“She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.”
