579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

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 country.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.