People Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Most people never listen.

— Ernest Hemingway

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

— Ernest Hemingway

Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

— Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

— Ernest Hemingway

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

— Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

— Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

— Ernest Hemingway

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be…

— Ernest Hemingway

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I…

— Ernest Hemingway

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get…

— Ernest Hemingway

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife…

— Ernest Hemingway

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered.…

— Ernest Hemingway

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

— Ernest Hemingway

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for…

— Ernest Hemingway

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things…

— Ernest Hemingway

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

— Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy…

— Ernest Hemingway

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual…

— Ernest Hemingway

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they…

— Ernest Hemingway

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night…

— Ernest Hemingway

And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever…

— Ernest Hemingway

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that…

— Ernest Hemingway

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things…

— Ernest Hemingway

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more…

— Ernest Hemingway

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people…

— Ernest Hemingway

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no…

— Ernest Hemingway

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they…

— Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no…

— Ernest Hemingway

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is…

— Ernest Hemingway