Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls was an immediate success. Hemingway wrote to his first wife, Hadley, that it was "selling like frozen daiquiris in hell."24 It has had tremendous impact and has been

As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.

The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

Sre?a je nešto što dolazi u raznim oblicima i tko je uop?e može prepoznati? Ja bih je ipak uzeo u svakom obliku i platio koliko traže.

Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five minutes for a table.

Everybody was drunk. The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark. We were going to the Champagne. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, "I'm drunk, I tell you, mon vieux. Oh, I am so soused.

I was his tennis friend.

Pez –dijo en voz alta pero suavemente–, seguiré contigo hasta la muerte.

The reason you are so sore you missed the war is because war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.

Si-apoi, se gândi batrânul, toata lumea omoara pe toata lumea într-un fel sau altul. Pescuitul ma omoara în aceeasi masura în care ma tine în viata.

because I've lived through so much,I can now enjoy in everything

You know when I am in the U.S.S.R. people write to me in Pravda when there is an injustice in a town in Azerbaijan. They say Karkov will help us.

Brett vypadala sakra báje?nÄ›. MÄ›la na sobÄ› pletený pulovr a tvídovou sukni a vlasy mÄ›la skartá?ované dozadu jako kluk. Ona to vÅ¡echno za?ala. Byla stavÄ›ná jako závodní jachta a v tom pulovru ?lovÄ›k žádnou její zaoblinu nepÃ…â"¢ehlíd.

and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He

I would like to have it for my whole life. You will, the other part of him said. You will. You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

Vamos, I'm not ugly. I was born ugly. All my life I have been ugly. You, Inglés, who know nothing about women. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare

A coward dies a thousand times, but a brave man only once

Que cosa mas mala es la guerra - What a horrible thing war is

Jak jsi vlastnÄ› zbankrotoval?" zeptal se Bill. "Dvojím zp?sobem," Ã…â"¢ekl Mike. "NejdÃ…â"¢ív postupnÄ› a potom naráz.

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The

Fizettél nekem egy pohár sört – mondta az öreg. – Embernyi ember vagy már.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs. He ate the white eggs to give himself strength. He ate them all through May to be strong in September and October for the truly big fish.

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.