Famous Quotes / Ernest Hemingway
147 Quotations by Ernest Hemingway
- 1. [What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.
- 2. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- 3. A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- 4. A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b ...
- 5. Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at l ...
- 6. All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f ...
- 7. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w ...
- 8. All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- 9. All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- 10. All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by p ...
- 11. All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
- 12. All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have ...
- 13. Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
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- 14. America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
- 15. As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
- 16. Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
- 17. Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br ...
- 18. But did thee feel the earth move?
- 19. But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- 20. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.