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Things Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more…
- Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning…
- If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the…
- Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not…
- Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming…
- It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot…
- All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we…
- You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor…
- The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
- Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for…
- You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.…
- The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring…
- There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things…
- God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
- Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and…
- Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
- Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you…
- This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning…
- All things truly wicked start from innocence.
- If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg…
- Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can…
- Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
- Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when…
- You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot…
- Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle