Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from A Farewell to Arms.
Love Quotes
"You don’t have to pretend you love me." "But I do love you." (6.44-45)
Warfare Quotes
"They blew him all to bits." (4.83)
Men and Masculinity Quotes
"Tell me, baby, when you lie here all the time in hot weather don’t you get excited?" (10.35)
Women and Femininity Quotes
"And why didn’t you marry?" "I don’t know. I was a fool not to." (4.55-56)
Courage Quotes
"Oh, no. I’m something called a V.A.D. We work very hard but no one trusts us." (5.34)
Language and Communication Quotes
"Priest every night five against one." (2.14)
Foreignness and the Other Quotes
"Why did you join up with the Italians?" "I was in Italy, […], and I spoke Italian." (5.7-8)
Drugs and Alcohol Quotes
[…] you pulled the neck of the flask down with the forefinger and the wine, clear, red, tannic and lovely, poured out into the glass held with the same hand." (2.8)