Chesnutt Charles Quotes & Sayings

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. — Charles W. Chesnutt

You, methinks you think you love me well;
For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
But work as vassal to the larger love,
That dwarfs the petty love of one to one. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's time enough, but none to spare. — Charles W. Chesnutt

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living. — Martha Hall Kelly

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things — Charles W. Chesnutt

She threaded her fingers through my hair and I nearly whimpered at the feel of them, my eyes rolling to the back of my closed eyes. I clutched her waist tightly, inhaling her breaths as I practically swallowed her beautiful tongue. — Fisher Amelie

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. — Charles W. Chesnutt

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion. — John Stuart Mill

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. — Charles W. Chesnutt

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained. — Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. — Charles W. Chesnutt

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It — Frank Herbert

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings ... — Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. — Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. — Charles W. Chesnutt

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. — Michael Landon