"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you……" — George Orwell

More Chestnut Quotes

This quote is filed under Chestnut Quotes, one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried… — Violet Fane
• For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises,… — Audre Lorde
• I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in… — Thomas Eakins
• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its… — William Butler Yeats
• I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot… — Winston Churchill
• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some… — Audrey Hepburn
• I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made… — Emile M. Cioran
• If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up… — Nicholas Culpeper
• Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands;… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut… — Homer
• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Sidney Crosby

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