Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway

Failure, Why, Old

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway

Rather, Choose, Subject

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Public, Three

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

Live, Him, Learned

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

Down, Country, Small

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

Sports, Great, Game

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Ernest Hemingway

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

Crazy, Put, Poet

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 21, 1899

Died: July 2, 1961

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