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.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat.

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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