Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Don't be snotty too soon. And then don't be snotty at all.

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.

Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place

Certi altri posti non erano così buoni, ma forse eravamo noi a non essere così buoni quando eravamo là.

The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.

Those damn .357's are hard to get now because draft-dodging FBI's have to use them to hunt down draft-dodgers," the man said. "But a man has to fire a shot sometime or he doesn't know how he is shooting.

I love your beard," Catherine said. "It's a great success. It looks so stiff and fierce and it's very soft and a great pleasure.

There are two types of people: those who are easy to be with but also easy to be without, and who are difficult to be with, but impossible to be without.

You have anything else eating you?" "Just in general." "How?" "Well I'm half crazy and you're half crazy and then we've got this crew of half saints and desperate men." "It isn't bad to be half saint and half desperate man.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy,' he said aloud. 'But since I am not crazy, I do not care.

and the palm fronds of our victories, the worn light bulbs of our discoveries and the empty condoms of our great loves float with no significance against one single, lasting thing—the stream.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.

How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

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 of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

We walked across the bridge and were on our own side of the river. Are you hungry again? I said. Us. Talking and walking. Of course, Tatie. Aren't you? Let's go to a wonderful place and have a truly grand dinner. Where? Michaud's? That's perfect and it's so close.

Pero el hombre no está hecho para la derrota —dijo—. Un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

To win a war, we must kill our enemies.

I ordered another rum St. James and I watched the girl whenever I looked up, or when I sharpened the pencil with a pencil sharpener with the shavings curling into the saucer under my drink.