Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They're always gonna be rich.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy.

The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.