Chestnuts Quotes

• Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

  John Evelyn

  Nuts, Delicacy, Able

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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

  Lying, Nuts, Tree

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Smell, Ghost Stories

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.11

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

  George Orwell

  Tree, Nineteen, 1984 Movie

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• 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 you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Sweet, Fall

  Louisa May Alcott “Little Women”, Рипол Классик

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• 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 elsewhere.

  Garrett Hardin

  Real, Lying, Fire

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  Yip Harburg

  Holiday, Paris, Tree

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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 play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

  Robert Fripp

  Sleep, Play, Symphony

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• How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Simple, Sea, Frugal

  Zorba the Greek ch. 7 (1946) (translation by Carl Wildman)

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• 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 the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fire, Keys, May

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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 brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Men, Hands

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 1 (1839)

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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, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Taken, Blood, Nuts

  Nicholas Culpeper (1992). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal”

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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 ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Long Ago, Feet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

  Daniel Handler

  Tree, Mouths, Branches

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.204, Egmont UK

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• 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 basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cake, Laughing, Would Be

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Happiness, Wine, Simple

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacrifice, Squirrels, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.259

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• Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Holiday, Sea

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• 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 lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

  Howard Rheingold

  World, Deer, Depends

  Source: medium.com

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• How innocent were these Trees, that in
  Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze,
  Stood garlanded and gay;
  Who now in sundown glow
  Of serious colour clad confront me with their show
  As though resigned and sad,
  Trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold;
  Pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old;
  Elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, I am merged in you,
  Who tell once more in tones of time,
  Your foliaged farewell.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Fall, Farewell, Tired

  Siegfried Sassoon (1956). “Sequences”

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• Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Smell, Hot

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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 out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Oil, Dancing

  "Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

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• My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Eye, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.468, New York Review of Books

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• It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Frying Pans, Splendid

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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