Ernest Hemingway on Beauty
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway, catalogued under beauty, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway and filed under "beauty" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #7660: "That Muretto di Alassio by Mario Berrino is a beautiful color film."
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #140329: "You're beautiful, like a May fly."
5 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway on Beauty
"That Muretto di Alassio by Mario Berrino is a beautiful color film."
"You're beautiful, like a May fly."
"In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable."
"As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy — happier — today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen."
"To me a heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other house we would use the American Mercury and the New Republic."