Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

About Ernest Hemingway:

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
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Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have? And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergo...

Ernest Hemingway

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

Ernest Hemingway

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're ...

Ernest Hemingway

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Ernest Hemingway

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

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

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Ernest Hemingway

If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu...

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Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.' 'I'll tell her,' I said. 'Don't bother. I can always wait here. It's very pleasant in the sun now, isn't it?' 'It's fall now,' I said. ...

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The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning, sweeping out and mopping, and luck were all you needed. For luck you carried a horse chestnut ...

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidl...

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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would f...

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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Ernest Hemingway

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

Ernest Hemingway

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you ...

Ernest Hemingway

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down wit...

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you ...

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Author Bio

  • NameErnest Hemingway
  • DescriptionAmerican author and journalist
  • AliasesHemingway ernest; Hemingway; ErnestHemingway; Ernest Heminway; Ernest Hemmingway; Ernest Miller Hemmingway; E. M. Hemmingway; E. Hemmingway; Earnest Hemmingway; E. Hemingway; Ernest M. Hemingway
  • BornJuly 21, 1899
  • DiedJuly 2, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Screenwriter; Writer; Novelist; Journalist; Autobiographer; Playwright
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Bronze Star Medal