Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Never mistake motion for action.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Never confuse movement with action.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.