Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

I can be a lazy slob.

I am lazy.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.