Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else's country." "Yes," I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The war was a long way away. Maybe there wasn't any war. There was no war here. Then I realized it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The town was very nice and our house was very fine. The river ran behind us and the town had been captured… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“You find everything on earth at Harry's." "Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness." "I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
