"The Scarlet Letter" Quotes
A woman in Puritan New England is shunned and marked with a scarlet letter for committing adultery.
classics | 225 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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.
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.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness.
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free.
It is to the honor of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
The only truth that continued to give Mr. Dimmesdale a real existence on this earth was the anguish in his inmost soul.
