My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
FRAN LEBOWITZHumility is no substitute for a good personality.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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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.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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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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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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