Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated

It is silly not to hope, he thought.

Woman are a nuisance on Safari.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business in New York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de 1'Est that would take me down to Austria. But the girl I was in love with was in Paris then, and I did not take the first train, or the second or the third.

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.

We are stronger in our broken places.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently used smile of the courtesan or the politician. It was the strange, rare smile which rises from the deep, dark pit, deeper than a well, deep as a mine, that is within them.

Half a million dead wops And he got a kick out of it The son of a bitch.

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

El hombre que ha empezado a vivir seriamente por dentro, empieza a vivir más sencillamente por fuera

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.

It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed.

There is a hollow empty feeling that a man can have when he is waked too early in the morning that is almost like the feeling of disaster and he had this multiplied a thousand times.

I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me.

Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died. All sentimental people are betrayed so many times. Nick could not write about him yet, although he would, later

Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

I was just bathing." "Aren't you the fortunate man. Bathing." "Only a shower.