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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961In The Toronto Star Weekly (4 March 1922)
You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book II, Chapter 12In context
- Work
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book II, Chapter XVIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Health
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. Henry1862–1910Strictly Business (1910), “A Municipal Report”
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Life & Death
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Markus Herz1747–1803Often credited to Mark Twain
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002)
- Clever Jabs
- Movies
Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
Charlton Heston1923–2008Speech at the Harvard Law School (1999), as quoted in “Appreciation: Charlton Heston” in Time magazine (April 6, 2008)
- Clever Jabs
- Politics
I got Christianity at school and Stalinism at home. I think that was a very good preparation for being a scientist because I got used to the idea that at least half the people are completely wrong.
Geoffrey Hintonborn 1947Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000), On his childhood.
- Science
One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980National Observer (15 August 1966).
- Television
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Newsweek (11 June 1956).
- Movies
Pascal proves nothing in favour of Religion, unless that a man of genius may be foolish on some subjects, and is but a child, when he is weak enough to listen to his prejudices.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 167
- Anti-Religion
- Clever Jabs
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
- Clever Jabs
- Genius
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn’t pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 6
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)
- Economics
- Youth