Ernest Hemingway Quotes

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Ernest Hemingway

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• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Single
  • Human

• My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Drawing
  • Now
  • Sure

• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Actor
  • FBI

• There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • True
  • Happy

• Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Drink

• It just amazes me every time I have a debate with the ACLU on this. What would you want, to have innocent names made public?

  

  Victoria Toensing
  • Time
  • Innocent
  • Debate

• A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Person

• It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Bring it on, bring the pain on, I want to face it.

  

  Alexander Masters
  • Pain
  • Bring
  • Face It

• But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eyes
  • Sweet
  • Lying

• I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
  • Life
  • God
  • Freedom

• A big lie is more plausible than truth.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Lying
  • Bigs
  • Plausible