Ernest Hemingway quotes about masculinity

He was a legitimate hero who bored every one he met.

“No,” I said. “I was blown up while we were eating cheese.”

“I’m not sick,” I said, “I’m wounded.”

I never think. No, by God, I don’t think; I operate.

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else.

Listen. You’re a hell of a good guy, and I’m fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn’t tell you that in New York.

Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public.

“I know it,” Romero said. “I’m never going to die.”

He always bets when he is angered, and so he usually bets foolishly.