Ernest Hemingway Quotes

"Never mistake motion for action."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Live life to the fullest."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so."
-Ernest Hemingway

"When you have a child, the world has a hostage."
-Ernest Hemingway

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
-Ernest Hemingway

"But did thee feel the earth move?"
-Ernest Hemingway

"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Grace under Pressure."
-Ernest Hemingway

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"Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride."
-Ernest Hemingway

"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds."
-Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Develop a built-in bullshit detector."
-Ernest Hemingway in Senses quotes.

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter."
-Ernest Hemingway

"To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
-Ernest Hemingway

"If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."
-Ernest Hemingway

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
-Ernest Hemingway

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."
-Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
-Ernest Hemingway in Listening quotes.

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
-Ernest Hemingway

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
-Ernest Hemingway in Writing quotes.

"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
-Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not going to climb into the ring with Tolstoy."
-Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
-Ernest Hemingway