Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

We'll come home and eat here and we'll have a lovely meal and drink Beaune from the co-operative you can see right out of the window there with the price of the Beaune on the window. And afterwards we'll read and then go to bed and make love." "And we'll never love anyone else but each other." "No. Never.

But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that nor thought that it could happen. So if your life trades its 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.

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

Discipline must come from trust and confidence.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

There are always mystical countries that are a part of one's childhood. Those we remember and visit sometimes when we are asleep and dreaming. They are as lovely at night as they were when we were children. If you ever go back to see them they are not there. But they are as fine in the night as they ever were if you have the luck to dream of them.

You learn in this war if you listen.

I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.

To kill them teaches nothing," Anselmo said. "You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred. That all our enemies should learn.

Think about something cheerful, old man, he said. Every minute now you are closer to home.

How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.