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 LEBOWITZDesigner clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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Nothing succeeds like address.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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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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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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