The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . . — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
