Quotes by Ernest Hemingway, page 3

Ernest Hemingway - american writer and journalist

Was born on 21 jul 1889.
Died on 02 jul 1961, at 71 years old.

Origin country: United States

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about writing, hope

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about feast, rest, man, life

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about bad, work

In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wine, drinking, food, happiness, thinking, being

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about reason, war, death, good, good luck

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about affair

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about love, death, end

Man is not made for defeat.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about defeat, man

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Never confuse movement with action.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about action

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about love

Never mistake motion for action.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about mistake, action

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about crime, criminals, war

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about moral

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.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war, defeat, things

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about poets

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about architecture

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about dignity, people