Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes, Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

More Authors by Last Name: [A-B] [C-D] [E-F] [G-I] [J-M] [N-S] [T-Z]

LitQuotes found 12 Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes!

Quote	Author	Source	Email Quote
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.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous 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.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price--purchased with all she had--her mother's only treasure!	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
"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 . . . "	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter
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
For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The House of Seven Gables
"Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?" cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding conversation. "It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body."	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The House of Seven Gables

LitQuotes found 12 Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes! Use the links below to see them all.

Select a Page
1 2 Next>>