Mary Chesnut Quotes


"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts."
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Forgiveness, Love, Indifference)

"I am always on the women's side."
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Women)

"I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding."
- Mary Chesnut
"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 Chesnut
(Related: Now, Want)

"I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe."
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Will)

"Is anything worth it?"
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Worth)

"Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!"
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Spirit)

"She died praying that she might die."
- Mary Chesnut
"The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead."
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Weight)