For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War. — 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 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
“For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at… — 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
“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.” — 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
“Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody… — 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
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
“He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have… — 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
(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
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
“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
“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
“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
“In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.” — 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
