Ernest Hemingway Quotes (296 Quotes)

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Heresy is the foe of countenance

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

But did thee feel the earth move?

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

All thinking men are atheists.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.