Ernest Hemingway

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”

— 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…

— Ernest Hemingway

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

— Ernest Hemingway

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— 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…

— Ernest Hemingway

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,…

— Ernest Hemingway

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

— Ernest Hemingway

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was…

— 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…

— 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.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he…

— Ernest Hemingway

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft is always shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

— Ernest Hemingway

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

— Ernest Hemingway

“He remembered the good times with them all, and the quarrels. They always picked the finest places to have the quarrels. And…

— Ernest Hemingway

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it…

— Ernest Hemingway

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

— Ernest Hemingway

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

— Ernest Hemingway

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want him for long He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and…

— Ernest Hemingway