Quote

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

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
Simply
Young
Vets
Dislike
Wouldn
Fans

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
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.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Sleep is death without the responsibility.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
Fran Lebowitz