1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway,

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.