Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

That was morality ; things that made you disgusted afterwards. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement. What a lot of bilge I could think up at night. What rot ! I could hear Brett say it. What rot ! When you were with the English you got into the habit of using English expressions in your thinking.

Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town

My God, what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?

You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

I wish to marry her . . . But she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative.

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another street. It went in pairs, on bicycles, and moved absolutely silently on the pavements.

He felt as though he were hailing a ship.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

When she goes, he though. I'll have all I want. Not all I want but all there is

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.

Do you suppose it will always go on? No. What's to stop it? It will crack somewhere.

I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it." The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.

the world is a fine place, and worth fighting for

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.

I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Many. Many. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly.

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care