22 Lenny Bruce Quotes

“With overpopulation, human misery, and the threat of war increasing, we need rather more adult performances from society.”
― Lenny Bruce. Here are 22 Lenny Bruce Quotes.

Lenny Bruce Quotes

1. “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.”
― Lenny Bruce

2. “There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.”
― Lenny Bruce

3. “I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.”
― Lenny Bruce

4. “There are never enough 'I love you's.”
― Lenny Bruce

5. “I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up”
― Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce Quotes

6. “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.”
― Lenny Bruce

7. “Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.”
― Lenny Bruce

8. “Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
― Lenny Bruce

9. “People are leaving the church and going back to God.”
― Lenny Bruce

10. “Liberals can understand everything but people
who don't understand them.”
― Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce Quotes

11. “Communism is like one big phone company.”
― Lenny Bruce

12. “If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”
― Lenny Bruce

13. “Life is a four-letter word.”
― Lenny Bruce

14. “I am influenced by every second of my waking hour. ”
― Lenny Bruce

15. “Must be lonesome, being bright and witty and aware,”
― Lenny Bruce

16. “If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
― Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce Quotes

17. “I don’t want a sharp chick who quotes Kerouac; I just want to hear my old lady say, “Get up and fix the toilet, it’s still making noise.”
― Lenny Bruce

18. “If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”
― Lennie Bruce

19. “There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster.”
― Lenny Bruce

20. “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.”
― Lenny Bruce

21. “There is only what is.”
― Lenny Bruce

22. “Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.”
― Lenny Bruce