Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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No horse named Morbid ever won a race.
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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.
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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
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Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.