Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Catherine saiu. Deus sabe que eu não queria apaixonar-me por ela. Não me apaixonar por mulher nenhuma. Mas Deus sabe que, apesar disso, me apaixonara, e agora ali estava na cama, naquele quarto do hospital de Milão, e passava-me pela cabeça toda a espécie de coisas, mas sentia-me extraordinariamente bem,... ------------------ O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

Agua mala', the man said, 'you whore

His father had dealt so lightly with evil, giving it no chance ever and denying its importance so that it had no status and no shape nor dignity. He treated evil like an old entrusted friend, David thought, and evil, when she poxed him, never knew she'd scored. His father was not vulnerable he knew and, unlike most people he had known, only death could kill him.

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

Religion is the opium of the poor. I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.

I'll kick you in the face!

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these moral standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very moral to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but very fine.

We are all broken – that's how the light gets in.

He was too simple to wonder how he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

There is no friend as long as a book

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.

She was a Canadian and had all their easy social graces.

I'm sorry. I've got a nasty tongue. I never mean it when I say nasty things.

In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers

I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say.

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.

Bill was buying shoe-shines for Mike. Bootblacks opened the street door and each one Bill called over and started to work on Mike. This is the eleventh time my boots have been polished, Mike said. I say, Bill is an ass.

It's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing..

We drove in to Biarritz and left the car outside a very Ritz place.

Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration