13 quotes
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!
In The Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
I was arrested for using a ten-letter word that began with ‘c,’ and I would marry no woman who was not one.
Peter McWilliams in Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (1996)
Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."
Fuck (2005)
In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
I want to perform an unnatural act.
I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
Life is a four-letter word.