Ring Lardner Quotes

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

You can fall in love with anyone. I naturally migrate toward men first; some people may be more open about it. Personally, it's not me.

Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her. The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

I don't like very young women very much. Never did.

His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?" "If you like." "Oh," he said, "I like.

What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me!

If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that simple." "Sure it is." "The earth moved," she said softly. "That has to be more than bodies communicating.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.

Still...you turn me on

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.