Famous Ernest Hemingway Quotes

  • He was mad and plenty brave. – Ernest Hemingway

    He was mad and plenty brave.– Ernest Hemingway

  • I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,- he said. -œNeither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish. – Ernest Hemingway

    I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,- he said. -œNeither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.– Ernest Hemingway

  • It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don’t think I can handle it alone. – Ernest Hemingway

    It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don’t think I can handle it alone.– Ernest Hemingway

  • I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

    I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.– Ernest Hemingway

  • Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers. – Ernest Hemingway

    Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.– Ernest Hemingway

  • I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know? – Ernest Hemingway

    I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?– Ernest Hemingway

  • The more I’m let alone and not worried the better I can function. – Ernest Hemingway

    The more I’m let alone and not worried the better I can function.– Ernest Hemingway

  • What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. – Ernest Hemingway

    What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.– Ernest Hemingway

  • Good. Coffee is good for you. It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. – Ernest Hemingway

    Good. Coffee is good for you. It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.– Ernest Hemingway

  • I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

    I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.– Ernest Hemingway