1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.