Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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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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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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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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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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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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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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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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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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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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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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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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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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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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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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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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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've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.