Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
Man is not made for defeat.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Courage is grace under pressure.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
