Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

He had already learned there was only one day at a time and that is was always the day you were in. It would be today until it was tonight and tomorrow would be today again. This was the main thing he had learned so far.

Ambition...the original of vices; Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.

It was probably bad busting it off," Bill said. "But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you." "Yes

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon.

Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had afición. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had afición he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting.

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all the others. But for a long time there were the Russians.

I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

She needs an enemy so badly always that she has to keep one near and she's the nearest and the easiest to attack knowing the weaknesses and strengths and all the faults of our defenses.

Tom," Ara said. "All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were Impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Now that you have ceased to be careful of yourself I must ask you to be, please. For us and for the ship.

Odgar loved her enough, God knows. It was liking, and liking the body, and introducing the body, and persuading, and taking chances, and never frightening, and assuming about the other person, and always taking never asking, and gentleness and liking, and making liking and happiness, and joking and making people not afraid. And making it all right afterwards. It wasn't loving. Loving was frightening.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't!

Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?

The movies ruined everything. Like talking about something good. That was what had made the war unreal. Too much talking.

How can there be solidarity of workers with fools like you?

But it is death nevertheless, one of the subjects that a man may write of.

He had a face that reminded me of a frog, not a bullfrog but just any frog, and Paris was too big a puddle for him.