Sea Quote by Ernest Hemingway Download Open image “It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...” — Ernest Hemingway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sea Virtue
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the… — James Carlton Copy Share Image
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
“The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that.… — Hilary Thayer Hamann 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
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments. — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
