Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
FRAN LEBOWITZAs a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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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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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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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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