Эрнест Хемингуэй: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 11)

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”

“This is a hell of dull talk… How about some of that champagne?”

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them. … Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motorcar only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

“And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”

“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

“My big fish must be somewhere.”

“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

“People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”

“You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?'
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.”

“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”