Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Quotes
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.
...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.
O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.
...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.
Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.