Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

Years are not important, my dear.

I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

I've always looked old for my age.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

Anyone of my age knows that days pass at a far greater speed than when they were young.

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.