Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

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.

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

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.

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

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.

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