Chestnut Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away…
— Violet Fane
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
— Audre Lorde
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I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental…
— Thomas Eakins
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Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom…
— William Butler Yeats
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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at…
— Winston Churchill
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This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find…
— Audrey Hepburn
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I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
— Emile M. Cioran
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If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey,…
— Nicholas Culpeper
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Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.
— Homer
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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
— Sidney Crosby
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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long…
— Ernest Hemingway
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If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can…
— Robert Fripp
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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
— George Orwell
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Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
— George Orwell
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in…
— Evelyn Waugh
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In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Chestnut Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Chestnut Quotes as follows: