The Marrow of Tradition
A source page for quotes linked to Charles W. Chesnutt.
“Those who set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.”
“We are all puppets in the hands of Fate, and seldom see the strings that move us.”
“We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.”
“The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.”
“There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.”
“Time touches all things with a destroying hand.”
“There's time enough, but none to spare.”
“Race prejudice is the devil unchained.”
“Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.”
“Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.”
“Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.”