Ernest Hemingway Quotes

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

The better day, the worse deed.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.