Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

—Fran Lebowitz

About Fran Lebowitz

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Frances Ann Lebowitz (; born October 27, 1950) is an American writer, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life, particularly from a New York City perspective, and for her association with prominent figures in the city's art and cultural scenes...

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My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

—Fran Lebowitz

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

—Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

—Fran Lebowitz

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

—Fran Lebowitz

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

—Fran Lebowitz

More quotations tagged with “humility”

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.

—Edith Sitwell

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

—Bryant H. McGill

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