Lenny Bruce Quotes
Who on Earth is Lenny Bruce?
| Born | October 13, 1925 |
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| Died | August 03, 1966 |
Books by Lenny Bruce
Best 25 Quotes by Lenny Bruce
“Communism is like one big phone company.”
“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
“I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.”
“I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.”
“I don't smoke pot, and I'm glad because then I can champion it without special pleading. The reason I don't smoke it is because it facilitates ideas and heightens sensations-and I've got enough shit flying through my head without smoking pot.”
“I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.”
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
“If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.”
“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish.”
“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”
“Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”
“Life is a four-letter word.”
“Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will some day become Congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.”
“Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.”
“Now, if the bedroom is dirty to you, then you are a true atheist, because if you have any of the mores, superstitions, if anyone in this audience believes that God made his body, and you body is dirty, the fault lies with the manufacturer. It's that cold, Jim, yeah.”
“Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.”
“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government'.”
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”
“The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it. Try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
“There are never enough 'I love you's'.”
“There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster.”
“There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.”
“When you're eight years old nothing is your business.”