Chestnuts Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess… — Baltasar Gracian
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,… — Charles Dickens
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water… — Luther Burbank
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
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
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie… — Garrett Hardin
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
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
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me-- — George Orwell
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
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete… — Chuck Palahniuk
In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown — Mary Ann Shaffer
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchardâ€¦And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover… — Charlotte Bronte
Where is he? Bridgerton!" he bellowed. Three chestnut heads swiveled in his direction. Simon stomped across the grass, murder in his eyes. "I meant the… — Julia Quinn
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown… — Thomas Hardy
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed… — William Shakespeare
My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I… — Ruta Sepetys
And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted… — Diana Gabaldon
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make… — Louisa May Alcott
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The… — Charlotte Bronte

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