Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

You’re only as good as your last haircut.

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

If you’re going to America, bring your own food.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

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.