Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'
- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what
I feel in the best and simplest way.
- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
American novelist and short-story writer
There are some things which cannot be learned
quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the
very simplest things, and because it takes a man's
life to know them the little new that each man
gets from life is very costly and the only
heritage he has to leave.
- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and
all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as
all-important to a writer. Those who do not last
are always more beloved since no one has to see
them in their long, dull, unrelenting,
no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights
that they make to do something as they believe it
should be done before they die. Those who die or
quit early and easy and with every good reason are
preferred because they are understandable and
human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are
more human and more beloved.
- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
- Ernest Hemingway
What is moral is what you feel good after.
- Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people
never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That
will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no
good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor
how justified, is not a crime.
- Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost
always simply a lack of ability to suspend the
functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk
to spend time with his fools
- Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest
thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and
friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the
coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered
felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a
cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out
a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a
pencil and started to write.
- Ernest Hemingway