1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

I’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

You roll back to me.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

Write drunk; edit sober.

The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.

Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died.