Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“Isn't it pretty to think so?”

"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for, and I hate very much to leave it.”

“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.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true storyteller who would keep that from you.”

“Time is the least thing we have of.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“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.”

“I know now that there is no one thing that is true; it is all true.”

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”

“Cowardice is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”

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

“When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you. Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion.”

“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.”

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin.”

“You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”

“I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.”

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

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.”