Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Lived from: 1899 - 1961

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 july 1899 Died: 2 july 1961

  • 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.
  • Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
  • 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.
  • The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
  • I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
  • If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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  • All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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  • A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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  • All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
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  • A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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  • A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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  • A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 16
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  • After you finish a book, you know, you're dead.
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  • All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
    Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7
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  • All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
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  • All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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  • All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
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  • All thinking men are atheists.
    A Farewell to Arms (1929)
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  • All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
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  • Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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  • As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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  • Bull fighting is not a sport. It was never supposed to be. It is a tragedy.
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  • Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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  • But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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  • Cigarettes smell so awful to you when you have a nose that can truly smell.
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  • Courage is grace under pressure.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ernest Hemingway?

The two most famous quotes from Ernest Hemingway are:

  • "All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
  • "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

When did Ernest Hemingway live?

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and died in the year 1961.