Misattributed Ernest Hemingway Quotes

We are all broken - that's how the light gets in. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well." – Thomas Hudson ~ Ernest Hemingway

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

You're my religion. You're all I've got. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

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. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have? And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that aborting horror you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whirling douches. I know about love. Love always hangs up behind the bathroom door. It smells like lysol. To hell with love. Love is you making me happy and then going off to sleep with your mouth open while I lie awake all night afraid to say my prayers even because I know I have no right to say anymore. Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book. All right. I'm through with you and I'm through with love. Your kind of picknose love. You writer. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I walked down past the Lycée Henri Quatre and the ancient church of St.-Étienne-du-Mont and the windswept Place du Panthéon and cut in for shelter to the right and finally came out on the lee side of the Boulevard St.-Michel and worked on down it past the Cluny and the Boulevard St.-Germain until I came to a good café that I knew on the Place St.-Michel. ~ Ernest Hemingway

You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary ... ~ Ernest Hemingway,

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Your blood coagulates beautifully. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

How can there be solidarity of workers with fools like you? ~ Ernest Hemingway

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen ~ Ernest Hemingway,

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

You look at the picture without prejudice,read book with open heart,like yours,but the life, you simply live ~ Ernest Hemingway

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ~ Martha Gellhorn

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The aficionado, or lover of the bullfight, may be said, broadly, then, to be one who has this sense of the tragedy and ritual of the fight so that the minor aspects are not important except as they relate to the whole. Either you have this or you have not, just as, without implying any comparison, you have or have not an ear for music. Without an ear for music the principle impression of an auditor at a symphony concert might be of the motions of the players of the double bass, just as the spectator at the bullfight might remember only the obvious grotesqueness of a picador. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

How do you tell a valuable French book?'
'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful ... ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish. ~ Ernest Hemingway,