1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.