Quotes by Ernest Hemingway - AI Generated Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

-Ernest Hemingway

age

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

-Ernest Hemingway

architecture

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.

-Ernest Hemingway

architecture

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

-Ernest Hemingway

art

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

-Ernest Hemingway

best

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

-Ernest Hemingway

best

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

-Ernest Hemingway

best

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

-Ernest Hemingway

best

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

-Ernest Hemingway

business

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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communication

Courage is grace under pressure.

-Ernest Hemingway

courage

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

-Ernest Hemingway

death

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

-Ernest Hemingway

death

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

-Ernest Hemingway

death

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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death

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

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failure

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

-Ernest Hemingway

fear

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

-Ernest Hemingway

funny

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

-Ernest Hemingway

god

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

-Ernest Hemingway

good

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

-Ernest Hemingway

great

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

-Ernest Hemingway

great

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

-Ernest Hemingway

great

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

-Ernest Hemingway

happiness

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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