Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

Look at things and listen and feel.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

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.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

All thinking men are atheists.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Never confuse movement with action.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

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

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Write drunk; edit sober.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

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.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.