Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message. A Moveable Feast

If you make jokes with people, you create enemies to yourself.

There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now

He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.

The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down into the water that was a mile deep.

She should have. All woman should see it. It's a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face. My son" – he pointed the razor at me – "go west with this face and grow up with the country.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Yes, and music is the opium of the people.

he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

The heart of another is a dark forest

The fish is calm and steady. I will eat it all and then I will be ready.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO I do not follow you. Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.

the fish's eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO He was thinking well, a little too well

Amit az ember leírt, az többé nem sanyargatja.

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He

Agrada-me pensar que não temos de matar as estrelas.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now

szemhatára csak a mát, a ma éjszakát, s a holnapot, és ismét csak a mát, a ma éjszakát, a holnapot foglalhatja magában, még legjobb esetben is. Ezért okosabbat nem tehet, hálásan elfogad minden percet.

For what are we born if not to aid one another? And to listen and say nothing is a cold enough aid.

After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.