1,349 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.