The Beguiled Quotes

“She weeps, like all the weak people in the world, for the lost days, for the way things once were and will never be again.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“I didn’t have any notion then how much evil we got in us, all of us. Seems like none of us ever stop to think how evil can collect in us . . . how one little mean thought can pile on another ’til finally we got a mighty load of badness stacked up inside us . . . and then all it takes is maybe one nasty word to set off the trigger in us . . . and maybe that’s some little triflin thing that wouldn’t even have raised our tempers in a calmer time . . . and then we rush ahead and do things we coulda sworn to the Lord Almighty in the beginning we never had in us to do.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“Well, if I cannot be sensible and popular at the same time, then I will always choose the virtue rather than the friends.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“Whatever way it was, it only proved once again what my own mother always told me - no matter how fast you run, you can never get away from your past. It's like your shadow, she used to say. Some people like to think their shadows disappear with the darkness but my mother always claimed that's just the time the devil sets to work and your shadow catches up with you”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“A lady's bed is not the place to bring her troubles.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“It is no longer a question—if it ever was—of who will be victorious, but only how much longer we can continue to bleed.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“With very few exceptions I have never remained in mutual favor very long with people I have known well. They very quickly find things wrong with me, or I with them. And I suppose nowadays I anticipate the disillusionment of others by keeping free of any illusions myself.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“I just keep thinking that summer is here and the sun is shining and I have the whole wide sky to fly in.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“That's enough, Mattie. You have the same right as the rest of us here to offer your opinion, but you mustn't persist with a suggestion when you are told that it is useless.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“Well, that's the way to be. Know exactly what you want...and to blazes with how you get it...and with everybody else.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“A lady’s appearance is her only weapon and we must never reveal that we know this weapon has no edge.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“Very little in life is worth weeping about," she said finally, "unless some purpose is served by the weeping.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“What kind of place would Heaven be if a man had to ride up to the gate and leave his horse outside?”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“The knowledge of unhappiness makes it impossible to ever more experience unalloyed bliss. That's only possible in a state of innocence.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“Have you ever been truly happy, Miss Harriet?” “Yes, once . . . a long time ago . . . but it didn’t last very long.” “What caused it to end?” Amelia wanted to know. “Reason and common sense.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“I fear God—as I fear many things—but I don’t pray to Him.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“Money is your great and ultimate weapon. With money you can buy steel and gunpowder and salt pork and all the courage you need.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“I found him in the woods.”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled

“little”
― Thomas Cullinan, The Beguiled