Quotes About The Scarlet Letter Itself

#1. Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. CHAPTER XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY CHAPTER XXII. THE PROCESSION CHAPTER XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. We can only hope to be lost in and completely scattered by the one we love the most.

R.M. Garry

#5. It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

Hugh Hefner

#7. I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

Jeremy Piven

#8. India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Mark Twain

#9. Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother who drinks? Forget it. Straight to hell. Big fat scarlet letter branded on our foreheads for life. Me and Hester Prynne? Same letter, different sins.

Amy Hatvany

#10. When I found out that I made it to the Season 11 finale, I was so shocked that if you went on YouTube and re-watch the Top 3 Results Show, you will see my face looked like a bus hit it.

Jessica Sanchez

#11. I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter.

Julie Metz

#12. I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

Catherynne M Valente

#13. If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14. If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.

Janet Autherine

#15. He wavin' at you, Dave. Hey, it's that drunk man done fell in the bayou the ot'er night. That man must surely love water.

James Lee Burke

#16. Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Mark McKinnon

#17. I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

Colleen Haskell

#18. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#19. Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#21. Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

Kate Atkinson

#22. The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Max Stirner

#23. Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Margaret Fuller

#24. She felt just like that girl in that book with the letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only knew the thorny side.

Victoria Kahler

#25. Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#26. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

John Irving

#27. Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the hum of destruction under- neath. Until such time as it will have to hear.

D.H. Lawrence

#28. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

Thomas More

#29. A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Peter De Vries

#30. Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.

Carrie Brownstein

#31. But it was a remarkable attribute of this garb, and indeed, of the child's whole appearance, that it irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom. It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#32. Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#33. I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.

Toni Braxton

#34. It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

W. Somerset Maugham

#35. I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

Yasmina Khadra