Mary Sneddon > Mary's Quotes

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.”
― ernest hemingway, To Have and Have Not

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice