The best The Sun Also Rises quotes

He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

Let no man be ashamed to kneel here in the great out-of-doors. Remember the woods were God’s first temples.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

As I went downstairs I heard Bill singing, ‘Irony and Pity. When you’re feeling . . . Oh, Give them Irony and Give them Pity.

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

I looked at myself in the mirror of the big armoire beside the bed . . . Of all the ways to be wounded. I suppose it was funny.

You are all a lost generation.[with credit to Gertrude Stein]

You're an expatriate...you've lost touch with the soil...you get precious fake European standards have ruined you. You spend all your time talking, not working.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

I stood up. I had heard them talking from a long way away. It all seemed like some bad play.