Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
![“There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.” quote by Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bad/fran-lebowitz-690_believe_there-s-also-the-idea-in-this-country-us_480145.jpg)
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