Despair Quote by Lenny Bruce

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,…

— Lenny Bruce

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

— Lenny Bruce

Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

— Lenny Bruce

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would…

— Lenny Bruce

If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air…

— Lenny Bruce

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

— Lenny Bruce

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

— Lenny Bruce

“People are leaving the church and going back to God.”

— Lenny Bruce

Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live in New…

— Lenny Bruce

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to…

— Lenny Bruce

“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

— Lenny Bruce

“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.”

— Lenny Bruce