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 LEBOWITZAsk your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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