Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said: that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water.

Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

I'm glad I remembered to make it an order, he thought. That helps him out. That takes some of the curse off. I hope it does, anyway.

he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All

Can you imagine anyone making wine because it tastes like strawberries?

The God takes care for drunks

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.