For Whom The Bell Tolls Quotes
"He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."
"The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass."
"It was as simple to move behind them as it was to cross through them, if you had a good guide."
"The only good sign was that Pablo was carrying the pack and that he had given him the carbine."
"The wine was good, tasting faintly resinous from the wineskin, but excellent, light and clean on his tongue."
"You have a very beautiful face," he said to Maria. "I wish I would have had the luck to see you before your hair was cut."
"But if thou canst I wish thee would read in the palm of my hand and tell me what is going to pass in the next three days."
"The bones are light and she weighs little. But she weighs enough when we had to carry her and stop to fire and then carry her again with the old woman lashing at Pablo with the rope and carrying his rifle, putting it in his hand when he would drop the girl, making him pick her up again and loading the gun for him while she cursed him."
"Safety. There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger."
"I am for the Republic, and the Republic is the bridge. Afterwards, we will have time for other projects."
"I should shoot thee and the foreigner both," Pablo said sullenly.
"It is possible that I am lazy and that I drink too much. You may consider me a coward but there you are mistaken. But I am not stupid."
"To me, it is a sin to kill a man. Even Fascists whom we must kill. To me, there is a great difference between the bear and the man."
"It is necessary to drink much of that for me to seem beautiful."
"But my obligation is the bridge and to fulfill that, I must take no useless risk of myself until I complete that duty."
"We made love and then sent for another pitcher of beer with the drops of its coldness on the glass."
"But those, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like no thing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom."
"We have done things together, yes, but never did we go to Valencia. Never did we lie in bed together and hear a band pass in Valencia."
"If you have not seen the day of revolution in a small town where all know all in the town and always have known all, you have seen nothing."
"To die is nothing. The only bad thing is to die at the hands of this canalla."
"It is very rare that one can spit actual saliva, which, in such a circumstance, as you should know, Inglés, is very rare."
"The Fair of Liberty and from this day, when these are extinguished, the town and the land are ours."
"We thresh fascists today, and out of the chaff comes the freedom of this pueblo."
"There are beautiful girls in heaven, Don Faustino."
"There may be giants and dwarfs, there may be Negroes and rare beasts from Africa. But for me never, never will there be anything like Don Faustino."
"He's your brother," Pilar said. "Hey, Inglés?"
"I am thy sister, Maria said. "And I love thee and thou hast a family. We are all thy family."
"For what are we born if not to aid one another?"
"I can remember holding thy two legs and thy belly was on my shoulder and thy head over my back and thy arms hanging down against my back."
"At times many things tire me," Pilar said angrily. "You understand? And one of them is to have forty-eight years. You hear me? Forty-eight years and an ugly face."
"I love thee and he can have thee, I am no tortillera but a woman made for men."
"There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion."
"A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
"I will learn from Pilar what I should do to take care of a man well and those things I will do."
"If thou would show me I would clean and oil thy pistol."
"If you will teach me to shoot it either one of us could shoot the other and himself, or herself, if one were wounded and it were necessary to avoid capture."
"Promise if there is ever any need that thou wilt shoot me."
"Thank thee very much. I know it is not easy to do."
"You forget all this, he thought. You forget about the beauties of a civil war when you keep your mind too much on your work."
"I can roll cigarettes for thee when thou hast no more of those with tubes."
"Then I will bring thee coffee in the morning when thou wakest."
"These mountains do not know the names of the months."
"All we know is that we do not know. We know nothing about what happens to us in the nights."
"If I stay here much longer I will freeze, he thought, and that will be of no value."
"I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing."
"The coming of the dark always made him feel lonely and tonight he felt so lonely that there was a hollowness in him as of hunger."
"But one thing I have that no man nor any God can take from me and that is that I have worked well for the Republic."
"I wish there were a penance for it that one could commence now because it is the only thing that I have done in all my life that makes me feel badly when I am alone."
"Back to the palace of Pablo," Robert Jordan said to Anselmo. "It sounded wonderful in Spanish."
"You have to take advantage of what time there is."
"With this bottle one could make a beautiful lamp. When we have electricity again, what a lamp we can make of this bottle."
"For me," Agustín said, "everything can be done under the Republic. I see no need for other forms of government."
"I am drunk on wine and I would be happy except for those people I have killed. All of them fill me with sorrow."
"One has encountered his tongue," Pablo said and nodded to Agustín. "Felicitations. I thought you'd been struck dumb."
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools."
"It is the thing that drunkards and those who are truly mean or cruel ride until they die."
"Here it is the shift from deadliness to normal family life that is the strangest."
"No one has any leave in this war but I am sure I could get two or three days in Madrid."
"I was going to lie in bed and read after the bath and drink a couple of absinthes."
"Why should you not have as good food as could be organized when you came back from something like this?"
"It was at Gaylord’s that you learned that Valentin Gonzalez, called El Campesino or The Peasant, had never been a peasant."
"Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination."
"I believe there is nothing more to it than that. I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things."
"You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world, against all tyranny, for all the things that you believed and for the new world you had been educated into."
"It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world."
"Thou, he thought, looking at the wedge of the front sight placed now firm in the slot of the rear sight, the top of the wedge against the center of the leader’s chest, a little to the right of the scarlet device that showed bright in the morning sun against the khaki cape."
"There are various women of trust in La Granja."
"In politics and this other the first thing is to continue to exist."
"But if we do not win this war there will be no revolution nor any Republic nor any thou nor any me nor anything but the most grand carajo."
"That we should govern justly and that all should participate in the benefits according as they have striven for them."
"Fear, yes," Agustín said. "Fear and the other. And in this life there is no stronger thing than the other."
"Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it."
"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind."
"Living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky."
"I believe in the people and their right to govern themselves as they wish."
"There are no languages so filthy as Spanish."
"No one was alive on the hilltop except the boy Joaquín, who was unconscious under the dead body of Ignacio."
"It's a shame there is such a jump in time between ones like us."
"I understand it, but I do not approve of it."
"The most intelligent is not to talk about tomorrow nor what happened today."
"In this we do not discuss the losses and what we must do tomorrow we will do."
"I'll keep any oversupply of that for tomorrow. I'll need all of that there is tomorrow."
"Because I will take care of thee. I will not ever leave thee."
"But thou must tell me for I have great ignorance and much of what she told me I did not understand clearly."
"I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry."
"They always muck you instead, from Cortez and Menendez de Avila down to Miaja."
"I love thee very much, rabbit. More than I can tell thee."
"It is possible that I can never bear thee either a son or a daughter for the Pilar says that if I could it would have happened to me with the things which were done."
"His rage began to thin as he exaggerated more and more and spread his scorn and contempt so widely and unjustly that he could no longer believe in it himself."
"He hated injustice as he hated cruelty and he lay in his rage that blinded his mind until gradually the anger died down."
"It’s all figured out, guapa," he said softly against Maria’s shoulder. "You haven’t been bothered by any of it."
"That being angry is another damned luxury you can’t afford."
"I find life very interesting," he said to Maria.
"How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time."
"We are too short of people but there is no sense to worry about that."
"No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist."
"I have understood this since we were at Sordo's."
"May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other."
"I am all right. Man, but I am content we are started."
"Speak softly. From now on speak little and softly."