Ernest Hemingway Quotes - Page 6

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

It is usually impossible for a large body of people to support themselves indefinitely by borrowing money, although a few people enjoy a great success at it for a time.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

(Interview with Paris Review, 1958)