Disdain Quote by Ring Lardner Download Open image ““He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.”” — Ring Lardner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disdain Humor Side-dish
“I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
“Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way." Incredulous eyes met his own. "You… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude… — Andrea D. Smith Copy Share Image
“The waiter came over to ask if all is delicious. As we have not yet ordered, it is certainly the perfect time to enquire.” — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“I really hoped he wouldn't be at dinner. Mainly because I didn't want to stare at him like a dumbass.” — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
“We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“take whatever we cooked already.” He pointed to the hot-plates, over on the side. “But you heard” — John Stonehouse Copy Share Image
“He glared at me as if I were solely responsible for the food shortage not only at the opening, but in several third world… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
“You never once looked away from your food. It was as if you were afraid it was going to get up and walk off… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it. — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
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… — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some… — Ring Lardner Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.” — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts.… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
I've always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image