1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.