Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
- Ernest Hemingway
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
- Ernest Hemingway
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
- Ernest Hemingway
I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
- Ernest Hemingway
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.
- Ernest Hemingway
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
- Ernest Hemingway
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.
- Ernest Hemingway
I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
- Ernest Hemingway
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
Hunger is good discipline.
- Ernest Hemingway
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
- Ernest Hemingway
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
- Ernest Hemingway