Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

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.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Never mistake motion for action.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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