Famous Quotes / Ernest Hemingway
147 Quotations by Ernest Hemingway
- 21. Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug ...
- 22. Courage is grace under pressure.
- 23. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun ...
- 24. Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
- 25. Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by ...
- 26. Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and ...
- 27. Eschew the monumental. Shun the epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
- 28. Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist ...
- 29. For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ ...
- 30. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is bey ...
- 31. For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
- 32. From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a ...
- 33. God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; c ...
- 34. Grace under Pressure.
- 35. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- 36. Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B ...
- 37. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days no ...
- 38. Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab ...
- 39. Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
- 40. His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one ti ...