35 Inspirational Fran Lebowitz Quotes On Success

Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. May these Fran Lebowitz Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.” Fran Lebowitz

2. “I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.” Fran Lebowitz

3. “Nothing succeeds like address.” Fran Lebowitz

4. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” Fran Lebowitz

5. “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” Fran Lebowitz

6. “Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.” Fran Lebowitz

7. “Humility is no substitute for a good personality.” Fran Lebowitz

8. “Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.” Fran Lebowitz

9. “Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” Fran Lebowitz

10. “Wealth and power are much more likely to be the result of breeding than they are of reading.” Fran Lebowitz

11. “My favorite animal is steak.” Fran Lebowitz

12. “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It’s supposed to be a door.” Fran Lebowitz

13. “Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life.” Fran Lebowitz

14. “I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I’m afraid of not writing.” Fran Lebowitz

15. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” Fran Lebowitz

16. “I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?” Fran Lebowitz

17. “A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.” Fran Lebowitz

18. “The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.” Fran Lebowitz

19. “As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” Fran Lebowitz

20. “The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.” Fran Lebowitz

21. “Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.” Fran Lebowitz

22. “I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.” Fran Lebowitz

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

24. “Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” Fran Lebowitz

25. “You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.” Fran Lebowitz

26. “Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.” Fran Lebowitz

27. “Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.” Fran Lebowitz

28. “You’re only as good as your last haircut.” Fran Lebowitz

29. “The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.” Fran Lebowitz

30. “If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.” Fran Lebowitz

31. “To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.” Fran Lebowitz

32. “Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.” Fran Lebowitz

33. “I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.” Fran Lebowitz

34. “The thing you love right away, don’t do it, because that’s the very thing that’s going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.” Fran Lebowitz

35. “Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” Fran Lebowitz

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