We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and…

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

“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

“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

— Ernest Hemingway

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

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

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“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

“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

“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