The Scarlet Letter Quotes

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:self appearance

“Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:heart passion music

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:heart passion marriage

“The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:understanding writing

“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:power suffering cruelty

“Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:wisdom age mind

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:world children

“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:future grief

“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:society

“Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:passion enemy

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