579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.

Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals -- they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children ...

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Favorite animal: steak.

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.