Quotes by Hemingway, Ernest

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even wors >>

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have t >>

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone l >>

Quotations about Patriotism

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else i >>

True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our cou >>

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limit >>

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

Hemingway, Ernest