Authors
Categories
- Anger (53)
- Art and Culture (340)
- Authority, Government (138)
- Beauty and Ugliness (75)
- Bravery and Fear (116)
- Defeates and Mistakes (121)
- Destiny and Fate (46)
- Dreams and Desires (100)
- Education (125)
- Egoism (62)
- Envy (39)
- Family and Loneliness (139)
- Forgiveness (49)
- Freedom and Servitude (83)
- Friendship and Hostility (118)
- God and Religion (220)
- Good and Evil (136)
- Happiness (147)
- Health and Alcohol (164)
- History and Nations (151)
- Human (290)
- Intellect, Judgement (159)
- Joy and Sadness (76)
- Justice (78)
- Knowledge, Ignorance (109)
- Law and Crime (111)
- Life and Death (347)
- Love (228)
- Loyalty and Betrayal (19)
- Manners and Ethics (251)
- Marriage (157)
- Memory (73)
- Nature and Animals (171)
- Normality and Madness (43)
- Optimism and Hope (87)
- Oration and Silence (93)
- Pain and Tears (77)
- Patriotism (36)
- Peace and War (104)
- Politics and Diplomacy (155)
- Power and Weakness (88)
- Question and Problem (81)
- Reality and Imagination (130)
- Richness and Money (170)
- Science and Technology (180)
- Sin and Conscience (93)
- Sorrow and Nostalgia (48)
- Success and Fame (157)
- Talent and Genius (82)
- Time and Passing (134)
- Trust (44)
- Truth and Falsity (206)
- Various (609)
- Wisdom and Stupidity (177)
- Wit and Humor (67)
- Woman and Man (155)
- Work and Laziness (124)
- Youth and Age (151)
Links
Quotations of selected author
Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961. American writer, he received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Author of "The Old Man and The Sea", "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
source: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
categories: Time and Passing
2. "There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."
categories: Truth and Falsity
source: "Death in the Afternoon"
categories: Life and Death -:- Marriage
4. "The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer."
categories: Art and Culture
categories: Art and Culture
6. "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
source: "Death in the Afternoon"
categories: Art and Culture
7. "Never confuse movement with action."
categories: Various
8. "Modern life is too often a mechanical oppression and liquor provides the only mechanical relief."
categories: Health and Alcohol
9. "Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
source: "The Old Man and The Sea"
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human
10. "Courage is grace under pressure."
categories: Bravery and Fear
11. "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
categories: Health and Alcohol
12. "All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
categories: Sin and Conscience
Privacy Policy
2007-2009, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
Layout based on template by Darren Hester, DesignsByDarren.com