1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

- What happens to people that love each other?- I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.