1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln photo

Mary Todd Lincoln Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“When I can bring myself to realize that he has indeed passed away, my question to myself is, ‘can life be endured?'”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, From letter to to her friend and neighbor Julia Ann Spriggs in Springfield, Ill., grieving over the death of Willie, the third Lincoln son, who died of typhoid resulting from contaminated drinking water from the Potomac river
Tagged: Agony, Loss, Death, Grief
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Tagged: Agony, Death, Loss, Marriage, Love
“I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Tagged: Marriage, Contentment, Hope
“These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Tagged: Possesion, Guidance, Spirit, Wealth, material wealth
“Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Tagged: scotland, beauty, country, travel
“So you are on guard to-night -- on guard in the White House after helping to murder the President.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Conversation with John F. Parker, the guard who left his post at Ford's Theatre
Tagged: Conspiracy, Murder
“That dreadful house...that dreadful house.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Cried in anguish as she exited the Petersen House and looked at Ford's Theatre on the morning of April 15, 1865
Tagged: dread, Loss, Sadness, Agony
“...do not allow the baby to walk too soon or she will become bowlegged.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Advice to her daughter-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln
Tagged: Care, Child Care, Walking, Teaching
“...my evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season...”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
Tagged: procrastination, Waiting, convenience, New Season, Change, Timing
“What day is so dark that there is no ray of sunshine to penetrate the gloom.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
Tagged: Darkness, Sunshine, gloomy
“I must dress in costly materials. The people scrutinize every article that I wear with critical curiosity. The very fact of having grown up in the West, subjects me to more searching observation. To keep up appearances, I must have money -- more than Mr. Lincoln can spare for me. He is too honest to make a penny outside of his salary; consequently I had, and still have, no alternative but to run in debt.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House
Tagged: dressing up, Fashion, Elegance, Appearance
“I seem to be the scape-goat for both North and South.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Tagged: Scape-goat
“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom, of which the degraded rebels would deprive us.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to James Gordon Bennett
Tagged: Darkness, Justice, Triumph, Freedom, Liberty
“My husband, did the great work of the war, but Grant, had all the pecuniary compensation.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to her friend, Rhoda White
Tagged: husband, Compensation, Work, War
“He is a butcher and is not fit to be at the head of an army. Yes, he generally manages to claim a victory, but such a victory! He loses two men to the enemy's one. He has no management, no regard for life.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Conversation with Abraham Lincoln regarding General Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged: Leadership, victory, Failed Leadership, Management
“...that, that miserable inebriate Johnson, had cognizance of my husband's death - Why, was that card of Booth's, found in his box, some acquaintance certainly existed - I have been deeply impressed, with the harrowing thought, that he, had an understanding with the conspirators & they knew their man... As sure, as you & I live, Johnson, had some hand, in all this..”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
Tagged: Death, Murder, Conspiracy
“I think the doctors would especially like to keep one in bed. The love of money, is the root of all evil.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to her daughter-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln
Tagged: Love, Money, Wealth, Greed, Evil
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent moment of pain, I may have caused him...”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to Senator Charles Sumner
Tagged: Anxiety, Marriage, Love, Words, Devotion, Gratitude, forgiveness
“I have no hope of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln. The canvass is a heated one, the people begin to murmur at the war, and every vile charge is brought against my husband.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Conversation with Elizabeth Keckley in the late summer of 1864
Tagged: Hope, Election, Presidency
“In grief, words are poor consolation - silence & agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to her sister, Elizabeth Todd Edwards
Tagged: Grief, Silence, Suffering, Pain, Words, Tears
loading next page...