Ring Lardner Quotes

Ring Lardner offers wry, cynical takes on writing, career and aging that will make you smile and sigh.

16 quotes

1. The whole world is about three drinks behind.

2. 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.

3. This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth.

4. There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.

5. Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

6. 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.

7. I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

8. They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

9. No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it.

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

11. How can you write if you can't cry?

12. An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

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

14. No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

15. “Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.”

16. “Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”