Top 101 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Never mistake motion for action.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.