The Sun Also Rises Quotes
"I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together."
"I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it."
"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."
"Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters."
"The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs."
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
"I’ve always felt that I was a good friend of his until he writes me a letter."
"It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working."
"It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."
You could have come over ten years ago, if you’d wanted to," the wife said. "What you always said was: ‘See America first!’
"Gradually and then suddenly." - Mike, explaining how he went bankrupt.
"They only want to kill when they’re alone. Of course, if you went in there you’d probably detach one of them from the herd, and he’d be dangerous." - Jake, discussing the nature of bulls.
"What a damn-fool thing to do. Why did she do that?" - Bill, regarding Brett's actions.
"I stopped at my tailor’s and he was impressed by the invitation, and I thought that’s a good piece of business, and I said to him: ‘You’ve got to fix me up with some medals.’" - Mike, recounting a humorous story.
"That’s the sort of thing that can’t be spoken of. That’s what you ought to work up into a mystery." - Bill, advising Jake.
"You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you." - Bill, to Jake.
"I offered to buy me a drink. I thought I might as well take it. I say, Brett, you are a lovely piece." - Mike, recalling a past encounter.
An old lady’s bags did that," Mike said. "I reached up to help her with them and they fell on me.
"Well, I never cared for it, myself. There’s plenty that do out where I come from, though." - A man discussing fishing.
"They lead such a quiet life. They never say anything and they’re always hanging about so."
"I said something, Mike. Don’t you remember? About the steers."
"Breeding be damned. Who has any breeding, anyway, except the bulls?"
"Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it."
"There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light."
"To hell with women, anyway. To hell with you, Brett Ashley."
"No, listen, Jake. Brett’s gone off with men. But they weren’t ever Jews, and they didn’t come and hang about afterward."
"He calls her Circe. He claims she turns men into swine."
"What a lot of bilge I could think up at night."
"I don’t know. They just didn’t give me the feeling that they were so good."
"All during the fiesta you had the feeling, even when it was quiet, that you had to shout any remark to make it heard."
"I’ve got to do something. I’ve lost my self-respect."
"It's funny what a wonderful gentility you get in the bar of a big hotel."
"It's sort of what we have instead of God."
Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?