1. “You are all a lost generation.”
2. “Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.”
3. “Everything looked sharp and clear, and the town smelt of the early morning.”
4. “Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences.”
5. “I hate the English.”
6. “Then I went on, and my feet seemed to be a long way off, and everything seemed to come from a long way off, and I could hear my feet walking a great distance away.”
7. “He’ll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”
8. “I know you’re right. I’m just low, and when I’m low I talk like a fool.”
9. “The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.”
10. “It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.”
11. “I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
12. “The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.”
13. “I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.”
14. “In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.”
15. “As I went downstairs I heard Bill singing, ‘Irony and Pity. When you’re feeling . . . Oh, Give them Irony and Give them Pity.‘”
16. “We all felt good, and we felt healthy, and I felt quite friendly to Cohn.”
17. “Nobody ever lives life all the way up except bull-fighters.”
18. “I hated to leave France. Life was so simple in France.”
19. “wonder what day god created the egg’ ‘how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks’. ‘eat a egg.”
20. “Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.”
21. ″‘Oh darling,’ Brett said, ‘I’m so miserable.’ I had that feeling of going through something that has all happened before. ‘You were happy a minute ago.‘”
22. “feeling.” “No,” she said. “I think it’s hell on earth.”
23. “This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.”
24. “He was the archivist, and all the archives of the town were in his office. That has nothing to do with the story. Anyway”
25. “I was pretty well through with the subject. At one time or another I had probably considered it from most of its various angles, including the one that certain injuries or imperfections are a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the person possessing them.”
26. “I only thought if you fished them some time it might remind you of what a good time we had.” — Harris
27. “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”
28. “You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.”
29. “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.”
30. “She was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else’s eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things,.”
31. “Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
32. “I was his tennis friend.”
33. “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
34. “So we sat and thought deeply for awhile.”
35. “I suppose she only wanted what she couldn’t have. Well, people were that way.”
36. “Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.”
37. “Oh, don’t go to hell,” I said. “Stick around. We’re just starting lunch.”
38. “She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else’s eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
39. “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
40. “It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.”
41. “In the morning I walked down the Boulevard to the rue Soufflot for coffee and brioche. It was a fine morning. The horse-chestnut trees in the Luxembourg gardens were in bloom. There was the pleasant early-morning feeling of a hot day. I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette. The flower-women were coming up from the market and arranging their daily stock. Students went by going up to the law school, or down to the Sorbonne. The Boulevard was busy with trams and people going to work.”
42. “It was a good morning, there were high white clouds above the mountains. It had rained a little in the night and it was fresh and cool on the plateau, and there was a wonderful view. We all felt good and we felt healthy, and I felt quite friendly to Cohn. You could not be upset about anything on a day like that. That was the last day before the fiesta.”
43. “like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America,”
44. “He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.”
45. “You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”
46. “I suppose she only wanted what she couldn’t have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.”
47. “Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.”
48. “I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn.”
49. “I had the feeling as in a nightmare of it all being something repeated, something I had been through and that now I must go through again.”
50. “He was a nice boy, a friendly boy, and very shy, and it made him bitter.”
51. “Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog…all right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”
52. “Never be daunted”
53. “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.”
54. “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.”
55. “In the Basque country the land all looks very rich and green and the houses and villages look well-off and clean… the houses in the villages had red tiled roofs, and then the road turned off and commenced to climb and we were going way up close along a hillside, with a valley below and hills stretched off back toward the sea.”
56. “It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.”
57. “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 with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”
58. “You ought to dream.”
59. “Brett’s not a sadist. She’s just a lovely, healthy wench.”
60. “I stood up. I had heard them talking from a long way away.”
61. “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
62. “Stick around. We’re just starting lunch.”
63. “Isn’t it pretty to think so”
64. “Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”
65. “Cheer up,’ I said. ‘All countries look just like the moving pictures.”
66. “Isn’t it pretty to think so.”
67. “It had rained a little in the night, and it was fresh and cool on the plateau, and there was a wonderful view.”
68. ″…as all the time I was kneeling with my forehead on the wood in front of me, and was thinking of myself as praying, I was a little ashamed, and I regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time.”
69. “In the Basque country, the land all looks very rich and green, and the houses and villages look well-off and clean.”
70. “Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.”
71. “A fog had come over the mountains from the sea…you could not see the tops of the mountains.”
72. “You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.”
73. “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact, he disliked it.”
74. “This is a hell of dull talk… How about some of that champagne?.”
75. “don’t ask me a lot of questions if you don’t like the answers”
76. “He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same, and now life only came in flashes.”
77. “I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together,”
78. “There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.”
79. “He’s so damned nice and he’s so awful. He’s my sort of thing.”
80. “Brett was happy. Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands. Robert Cohn shook hands because we were back.”
81. “Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.”
82. “I hated to leave France. Life was so simple in France. I felt I was a fool to be going back into Spain. In Spain you could not tell about anything.”
83. “Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.”
84. “I don’t know. There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”
85. “Here’s the beautiful lady with the beer.”
86. “It was a good morning; there were high white clouds above the mountains.”
87. “That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality.”
88. “Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
89. “The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals.”
90. “He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring.”
91. “But I couldn’t live quietly in the country. Not with my own true love.”
92. “We could have had such a good time together.” — Brett
93. “You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.”
94. “You’ll lose it if you talk about it.”
95. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
96. “Let no man be ashamed to kneel here in the great out-of-doors. Remember the woods were God’s first temples.”
97. “It never makes any difference what the English say.”
98. “You see, Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.”
99. “you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
100. “Everyone behaves badly–given the chance.”
101. “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?.”
