25 quotes
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
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.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Let the black flower blossom as it may!
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
In view of my previous weariness of office, and vague thoughts of resignation, my fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
The Scarlet Letter (1850)