Ernest Hemingway on War
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway, catalogued under war, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway and filed under "war" 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 #211926: "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."
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #94042: "One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war."
7 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway on War
"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."
"One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war."
"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Svět je nádherné místo a stojí za to za něj bojovat."
"'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.'"
"In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more."
"'Hemingway Goes To War' by Charles Whiting"
"Antonio always prayed in the room before the fight at the last when the well-wishers and the followers were gone. If there was time at the ring nearly everyone slipped into the chapel to pray once before the paseo. Antonio knew I prayed for him and never for myself. I was not fighting and I had quit praying for myself during the Spanish Civil War when I saw the terrible things that happened to other people and I felt that to pray for oneself was selfish and egotistical."