Top 101 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

About Ernest Hemingway

These are some quotes by American author Ernest Hemingway Novelist, who lived between July 21, 1899 and July 2, 1961.

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ernest Hemingway

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