Fran Lebowitz Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Book, School

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

• It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Years, Twenties

• The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Couple, War

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.".

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beautiful, War, Winning

  Source: www.elle.com

• If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Believe, People

• The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Fighting, Successful

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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