30 Ernest Hemingway quotes to remember his legacy in literature

The classic work is a book that everyone admires, but no one reads.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to man than children?

But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It’s better to be lucky. But I prefer to always do things well. So, if luck smiles at me, I’m prepared.

Always do lucidly what you said you would do drunk. This will teach you to keep your mouth closed.

All good books look alike: they are more real than if they actually happened.

Knowledge and refined sensory education can derive infinite pleasures from wine.

The secret of wisdom, power and knowledge is humility.

An idealist is a man who, assuming that a rose smells better than a cabbage, deduces that a rose soup would also taste better.

Sometimes an intelligent man is forced to get drunk to spend time with donkeys.

Never confuse movement with action.

If you succeed, it’s always been for the wrong reasons. If you become popular, it will always be for the worst aspects of your job.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy ending.

Even when I was in a crowd, I was always alone.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to be silent.

The wisdom of the old is a great mistake. They do not become wiser, but more prudent.

A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

I like to listen. I learned a lot by listening carefully. Most people never listen.

For an authentic writer, each book should be a new beginning with which he tries something that is beyond his reach.

A rich person is different from someone who is not: he has more money.

Happiness in intelligent people is one of the rarest things I know.

Knowing a man and knowing what’s inside his head are different matters.

My psychoanalyst is my typewriter.

When was I really happy? In Paris, when he was very poor and lived by sniffing his friends’ sandwiches.

Cowardice is almost always just an inability to suspend the workings of the imagination.

Some people when they hear an echo, they think they gave rise to the sound.

My goal is to put on paper what I see and what I feel in the simplest and best way.

If I wanted to transmit messages, I would send telegrams.

Time is only what separates us from death.

A writer makes himself during the day, on the asphalt and in the dust, suffering and enjoying, hating and wanting as only a madman or God can do.

The man who has begun to live more seriously on the inside begins to live more simply on the outside.