1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.