Ernest Hemingway quotes about masculinity
10 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Ernest Hemingway wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 165 in the full collection.
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.
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.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- A Farewell to Arms quotes · 68 lines (1929)
- The Sun Also Rises quotes · 86 lines (1926)
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