Lenny Bruce Quotes


"Communism is like one big phone company."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Communism, Company)

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: God, People, Church, Day)

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Beach)

"When you're eight years old nothing is your business."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Business, Nothing, Old, Years)

"There are never enough I Love You's."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Love)

"The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds."
- Lenny Bruce
"The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Daughter)

"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
(Related: Art, Comedy, Laughter, Man)

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: People, Liberals)

"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
(Related: Time, Public, Satire, Tragedy, Will)

"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Justice)

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: First)

"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
(Related: Children, School, Years)

"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: God, Kissing)

"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
(Related: School)

"I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Hate, Nothing)

"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
(Related: People, Trying)