Fran Lebowitz Quotes About Smoking

Quotes about: Smoking

• You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Home, Mean, Thinking

• That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Revenge, Being Alone, Two

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.77, Vintage

• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Smoking, Adults

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.292, Vintage

• Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Maturity, Smoking, Adults

• Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Quitting, Quit Smoking

• Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Romance, Lifetime

• It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Baby, Smoking, Flying

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

• 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 smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hands, Nuts, Ideas

• 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.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

• Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Innovation, Done

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

• Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Speaks French, People

• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, Growing Up, Fun

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.292, Vintage

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin