# Ernest Hemingway's most famous quotes

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated", Paris as a moveable feast and "one true sentence": Ernest Hemingway's most quoted lines, with the novel or book they come from.

- 5 votes · 11 items
- May 9, 2019 · fotograma_del_sur
- https://even.best/en/l/4899/ernest-hemingway-s-most-famous-quotes

## Top 11

1. **But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
2. **All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Moveable Feast (1964).
3. **The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Farewell to Arms (1929).
4. **Grace under pressure.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His definition of courage, in a 1929 New Yorker profile by Dorothy Parker.
5. **"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly."** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Sun Also Rises (1926).
6. **Isn't it pretty to think so?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Sun Also Rises (1926), last line.
7. **You are all a lost generation.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926), words of Gertrude Stein.
8. **There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
9. **If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Epigraph to A Moveable Feast (1964), from a letter to a friend.
10. **The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
11. **Every day above earth is a good day.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

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