1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.