Quotes by Louis Auchincloss

About Louis Auchincloss:

Louis Stanton Auchincloss is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton.[citation needed]
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I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me wi...

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Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in ...

Louis Auchincloss

But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxious and even sinful, and as nothing was to be gaine...

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We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

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With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

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Author Bio

  • NameLouis Auchincloss
  • DescriptionLawyer, novelist, historian, essayist
  • BornSeptember 27, 1917
  • DiedJanuary 26, 2010
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Historian; Novelist
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts