Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

Never confuse movement with action.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

When people talk, listen completely.

Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Work could cure almost anything