Quote

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

Fran Lebowitz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Pleasurable
Romantic
Illness
Mental
Love

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
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 Lebowitz
Image
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
Fran Lebowitz