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 LEBOWITZYou’re only as good as your last haircut.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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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 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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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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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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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