Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Never mistake motion for action.

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

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

The age demanded that we danceThe sort of shit that it demanded.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp-followers.