Ernest Hemingway Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

“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.”

“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”