The quotations of

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

1804–1864

23 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and Happiness.

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), The Custom-HouseIn context
- Writing
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised 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), Chapter IIn context
- Justice
- Life & Death
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIn context
- Enemies
- Friendship
What we did had a consecration of its own.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Love
The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers⁠—stern and wild ones⁠—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Experience
- Women
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Truth & Lies
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Love
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Truth & Lies

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