Fran Lebowitz Quotes

• If you’re going to America, bring your own food.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Topics in America

  Tags in Going, Bring

• You’re only as good as your last haircut.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Only

• I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood
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  Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

  Fran Lebowitz

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  Tags in Sleep, Something

• Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.

  Fran Lebowitz

• You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  Fran Lebowitz

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  Fran Lebowitz

• To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

  Fran Lebowitz

• The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  Fran Lebowitz

• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

  Fran Lebowitz

• Nothing succeeds like address.

  Fran Lebowitz

• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz (69)

Birth:	27th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Speaker

About

Fran Lebowitz was born in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. She is an American author, actress, and public speaker. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. She has written several books include: Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. Her role in several films including Public Speaking, Beautiful Darling, and Resident Alien.

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