Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I drink to make people more interesting, Ernest Hemingway.

It is why I bother with you, he said. I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

The people you work with should be either fully trusted or not trusted at all, so one should decide, who deserves to be trusted

Nicholas Adams drove on through the town along the empty, brick-paved street ... on under the heavy trees of the small town that are a part of your heart if it is your town and you have walked under them, but that are only too heavy, that shut out the sun and that dampen the houses for a stranger.

turned around and looked after her. "If she did not have her hair cut so short she would be a pretty girl," he said.

I had no feeling for him. He did not seem to have anything to do with me. I felt no feeling of fatherhood.

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

went to the cafés at the corner of the Boulevard Montparnasse and the Boulevard Raspail to be seen publicly and in a way such places anticipated the columnists as the daily substitutes for immortality.

Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They

It is only in defeat that we become Christian

Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

seems completely unwarranted.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you wish and then you will never want any other girls, will you?' She looked at me very happily. 'I'll do what you want and say what you want and then I'll be a great success, won't I?' 'Yes.

Qua Va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do.

Nul homme n'est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d'un continent et chaque fois que tu entends sonner le glas, ne demande pas pour qui il sonne, il sonne pour toi. --Ernest Hemingway, "Pour qui sonne le glas"?

no man was ever alone on the sea.

You see, Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.

We still went under the system, then, that praise to the face was open disgrace.

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing," he said aloud. "I went out too far.

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.