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Top 20 Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.”

1. “We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.”

2. “Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.”

3. “Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Threatened men live long.”

4. “Threatened men live long.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.”

5. “Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “I am always on the women’s side.”

6. “I am always on the women’s side.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!”

7. “Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.”

8. “To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do not sizz, they won’t do; their patriotism is too cool.”

9. “We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do not sizz, they won’t do; their patriotism is too cool.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.”

10. “Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “She died praying that she might die.”

11. “She died praying that she might die.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.”

12. “Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.”

13. “Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.”

14. “I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “Women – wives and mothers – are the same everywhere.”

15. “Women – wives and mothers – are the same everywhere.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “The weight that hangs upon our eyelids – is of lead.”

16. “The weight that hangs upon our eyelids – is of lead.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.”

17. “I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.”

18. “A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “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?”

19. “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?”

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Mary Boykin Chesnut Quote: “When we read of the battles in India, in Italy, in the Crimea, what did we care? It was only an interesting topic, like any other, to look for in the paper. Now, you hear of a battle with a thrill and a shudder. It has come home to us... A telegram comes to you and you leave it on your lap. You are pale with fright... How many, many of your friends or loved ones this scrap of paper may tell you have gone to their death.”

20. “When we read of the battles in India, in Italy, in the Crimea, what did we care? It was only an interesting topic, like any other, to look for in the paper. Now, you hear of a battle with a thrill and a shudder. It has come home to us... A telegram comes to you and you leave it on your lap. You are pale with fright... How many, many of your friends or loved ones this scrap of paper may tell you have gone to their death.”

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

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