Ernest Hemingway Quotes

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

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

"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."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

"Never mistake motion for action."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"Time is the least thing we have of."

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around."