Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — 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
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
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
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
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material. — 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
“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
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more. — 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
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — 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
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. — 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
