No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
FRAN LEBOWITZHumility is no substitute for a good personality.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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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.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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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.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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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.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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