Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Man is not made for defeat.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

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.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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.