Top 34 Lardner Quotes
#1. Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.
Dan Jenkins
#2. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
#3. If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.
Ishmael Reed
#4. Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty
Ring Lardner
#5. On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'
Thomas Sangster
#6. He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
Ring Lardner
#7. The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
Ring Lardner
#8. An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Ring Lardner
#9. I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
Ring Lardner
#10. Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.
Ring Lardner
#11. Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Dionysius Lardner
#12. It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert
#13. No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
Ring Lardner
#15. Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.
P.C. Cast
#16. That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
Henry Rollins
#18. Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
Ring Lardner
#19. Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.
Ring Lardner Jr.
#20. He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.
Ring Lardner Jr.
#21. Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.
Morgan Freeman
#22. A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner
#23. The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Ring Lardner
#24. He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
Ring Lardner
#25. Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.
Ring Lardner Jr.
#26. I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.
Paul Shaffer
#27. Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
Dionysius Lardner
#28. I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
Sojourner Truth
#30. This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.
George R R Martin
#31. Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.
Ring Lardner
#32. I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
Muhammad Ali
#33. They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner
#34. Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
Francois Truffaut
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