Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.