28 Quotes by Ring Lardner

How can you write if you can't cry?

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.

Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.

Some like them hot,some like them cold.Some like them when they're not to darn oldSome like them fat,some like them lean.Some like them only at sweet sixteen.Some like them dark,some like them light.Some like them in the park,late at night.Some like them fickle,some like them true,But the time I like them is when they're like you

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty

Some of ours is so crooked they can't lay in a birth only when the trains making a curve.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

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.