Quotes by

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. – Ernest Hemingway

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

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

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

There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games. – Ernest Hemingway

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. – Ernest Hemingway

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

One cat just leads to another. – Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemingway

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. – Ernest Hemingway