The best The Sun Also Rises quotes

Isn't it pretty to think so.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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