Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends." Let

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

By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

it's a big misconception: the wisdom of the old people. They don't become wiser. Just more cautious.

Dele poca importancia al vestir y no le dé ninguna importancia a la moda, cómprese vestidos cómodos y que duren, y con lo ahorrado en vestir podrá comprar cuadros

Stupid people will think it is strange. But we must be proud. I love to be proud. So do I, he said. We'll start being proud now.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

finding you were able to make something up; to create truly enough so that it made you happy to read it; and to do this every day you worked was something that gave a greater pleasure than any I had ever known.

May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

If a man liked his friend's painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and it was not polite to criticize them.

First you're indebted and then you beg.

leer servía para no pensar en el trabajo ni preocuparse hasta el momento de reemprenderlo.

E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.

Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. - about Wyndham Lewis

Il avait le poisson sous les yeux et il lui suffisait de regarder ses mains et de sentir son dos contre le bois de l'arrière pour savoir que cela était bel et bien arrivé et que ce n'était pas un rêve.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.

You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito.

I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.