Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

War is not won by victory.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Never mistake movement for action

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

But did thee feel the earth move?

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

You've such a lovely temperature.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.