1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Never mistake movement for action

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.