Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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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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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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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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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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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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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.