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.
FRAN LEBOWITZScientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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