Quote

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

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
Ahead
Book
World
Lawyer

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
Fran Lebowitz