Ernest Hemingway Good Quotations

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

But in modern war, you die like a dog for no good reason

Every day above earth is a good day.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

A bottle of wine was good company.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Hunger is good discipline.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.