Book Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne