Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
- Ernest Hemingway
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
- Ernest Hemingway
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
- Ernest Hemingway
Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.
- Ernest Hemingway
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
- Ernest Hemingway
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
- Ernest Hemingway
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
- Ernest Hemingway
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
- Ernest Hemingway
You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
- Ernest Hemingway
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
- Ernest Hemingway
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
- Ernest Hemingway