Top 33 Chesnut Quotes
#2. Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#3. Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.
Harrison Ford
#5. Are you laughing at me?" I squawk. I laugh, too, my voice sounds so strained. Will's laughter picks up even more. "I can't help it. You make me happy.
Kristin Halbrook
#7. A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.
(on Mark Twain)
William Faulkner
#11. I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with their tariff, get the money there is in it.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#12. Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.
Charles Spurgeon
#13. Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#15. The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.
Ebenezer Elliott
#16. Paul Tillich, for example, maintained that, 'It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it.'4
Lloyd Geering
#17. Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
Robertson Davies
#18. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#19. Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#20. We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate ... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#21. I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#22. What happens when you die?" I asked. "Nothing happens." he said. "Nothing happens forever.
Justin Torres
#23. To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#24. A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#26. Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?
St. Vincent
#27. I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#29. Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#30. There is no slave, after all, like a wife ... Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#31. We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#32. Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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