--- title: "7 Critics Quotes By Ernest Hemingway" description: "7 Critics quotes by Ernest Hemingway. Plus more from Ernest Hemingway and more Critics sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/ernest-hemingway-83_abuse_decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-sin_200688.jpg" --- > [Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-since-it-has-become-little-more/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/ernest-hemingway-83_abuse_decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-sin_200688.jpg) > [All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/all-the-critics-who-could-not-make-their-reputations-by-discovering/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a0/ernest-hemingway-83_affiliation_all-the-critics-who-could-not-make-their_979935.jpg) > [God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/god-knows-people-who-are-paid-to-have-attitudes-toward-things-2/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7f/ernest-hemingway-83_attitude_god-knows-people-who-are-paid-to-have-at_1395159.jpg) > [If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/if-the-book-is-good-is-about-something-that-you-know-and-is-truly/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10f/ernest-hemingway-83_book_if-the-book-is-good-is-about-something-t_1644844.jpg) > [One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/one-battle-doesn-t-make-a-campagin-but-critics-treat-one-book-good-or/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/ernest-hemingway-83_battle_one-battle-doesn-t-make-a-campagin-but-c_1921347.jpg) > [Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/critics-are-men-who-watch-a-battle-from-a-high-place-then-come-down/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/ernest-hemingway-83_battle_critics-are-men-who-watch-a-battle-from_2338273.jpg) > [I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/i-am-opposed-to-writing-about-the-private-lives-of-living-authors-and-2/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/ernest-hemingway-83_alive_i-am-opposed-to-writing-about-the-privat_3216627.jpg) ## Other authors on Critics ## More by Ernest Hemingway > [Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/wine-is-one-of-the-most-civilized-things-in-the-world-and-one-of-the/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/there-was-no-wind-and-outside-now-of-the-warm-air-of-the-cave-heavy/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/it-was-not-brilliant-bull-fighting-it-was-only-perfect-bull-fighting/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/one-cat-just-leads-to-another-the-place-is-so-damned-big-it-doesn-t/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/creation-s-probably-overrated-after-all-god-made-the-world-in-only/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/viva-my-husband-who-was-mayor-of-this-town/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/the-earth-gets-tired-of-being-exploited/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/what-is-moral-is-what-you-feel-good-after-and-what-is-immoral-is-what/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/we-drove-out-along-the-coast-road-there-was-the-green-of-the/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/as-a-nobel-prize-winner-i-cannot-but-regret-that-the-award-was-never/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) > [Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/oh-darling-i-ve-been-so-miserable/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/i-read-my-own-books-sometimes-to-cheer-me-when-it-is-hard-to-write/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/you-find-everything-on-earth-at-harry-s-yes-my-colonel-except/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/no-it-s-bad-for-me-cole-porter-wrote-the-words-and-the-music-this/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/everything-kills-everything-else-in-some-way-fishing-kills-me-exactly/) [Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/critics/ernest-hemingway/#itemlist", "name": "7 Critics Quotes By Ernest Hemingway", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ernest Hemingway" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-since-it-has-become-little-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/ernest-hemingway-83_abuse_decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-sin_200688.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/ernest-hemingway-83_abuse_decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-sin_200688.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/ernest-hemingway-83_abuse_decadence-is-a-difficult-word-to-use-sin_200688.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics…” — Ernest Hemingway", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. 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