--- title: "12 Hester Prynne Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 12 Hester Prynne quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Hester Prynne sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/peter-de-vries-7735_adultery_a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the_13569.jpg" --- > [A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-de-vries/a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the-scarlet-letter-was-given-an/) [Peter De Vries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-de-vries/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/peter-de-vries-7735_adultery_a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the_13569.jpg) > [“Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/could-they-be-other-than-the-insidious-whispers-of-the-bad-angel-who/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_hester-prynne_could-they-be-other-than-the-insidious-w_604705.jpg) > [“They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/they-were-doubtless-good-men-just-and-sage-but-out-of-the-whole-human/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acb/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_family_they-were-doubtless-good-men-just-and-sa_3207529.jpg) > [Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/aria-i-went-to-hollis-because-i-was-looking-for-you-know-her-she-was/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e79/sara-shepard-1948_aria_aria-i-went-to-hollis-because-i-was-look_1793067.jpg) > [“Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-hatvany-yurk/cancer-is-tangible-people-feel-compassion-for-you-if-you-get-cancer/) [Amy Hatvany (Yurk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-hatvany-yurk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/582/amy-hatvany-yurk-55011_cancer_cancer-is-tangible-people-feel-compassio_1319660.jpg) > [“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/a-woman-never-overcomes-these-problems-by-any-exercise-of-thought/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_fitness_a-woman-never-overcomes-these-problems-b_2057325.jpg) > [“But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/but-hester-prynne-with-a-mind-of-native-courage-and-activity-and-for/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_courage_but-hester-prynne-with-a-mind-of-native_2952446.jpg) > [“As Hester Prynne seemed to see some trace of her own sin in every bosom, by the glare of the Scarlet Letter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louisa-may-alcott/as-hester-prynne-seemed-to-see-some-trace-of-her-own-sin-in-every/) [Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louisa-may-alcott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/louisa-may-alcott-318_books_as-hester-prynne-seemed-to-see-some-trac_1497118.jpg) > [“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any Christian literary and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-swanson/there-is-no-room-for-rosy-eyed-acceptance-of-the-cultural-decay/) [Kevin Swanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-swanson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/kevin-swanson-36927_apostasy_there-is-no-room-for-rosy-eyed-acceptanc_1055290.jpg) > [“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-vulgar-who-in-those-dreary-old-times-were-always-contributing-a/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_old-times_the-vulgar-who-in-those-dreary-old-times_369860.jpg) > [“Lillian was determined that her next role would be Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and assumed she only needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cari-beauchamp/lillian-was-determined-that-her-next-role-would-be-hester-prynne-in/) [Cari Beauchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cari-beauchamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/939/cari-beauchamp-30102_motion-picture_lillian-was-determined-that-her-next-rol_2767805.jpg) > [“It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another’s actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/it-was-no-wonder-that-they-thus-questioned-one-another-s-actual-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_fear_it-was-no-wonder-that-they-thus-question_2795602.jpg) ## Top authors on Hester Prynne - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nathaniel-hawthorne-70480.jpg) Nathaniel Hawthorne 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hester-prynne/nathaniel-hawthorne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hester-prynne/#itemlist", "name": "Hester Prynne Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Peter De Vries" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-de-vries/a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the-scarlet-letter-was-given-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/peter-de-vries-7735_adultery_a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the_13569.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/peter-de-vries-7735_adultery_a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the_13569.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/peter-de-vries-7735_adultery_a-hundred-years-ago-hester-prynne-of-the_13569.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no…” — Peter De Vries", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the 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? 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She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness [...]”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nathaniel Hawthorne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/but-hester-prynne-with-a-mind-of-native-courage-and-activity-and-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_courage_but-hester-prynne-with-a-mind-of-native_2952446.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_courage_but-hester-prynne-with-a-mind-of-native_2952446.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_courage_but-hester-prynne-with-a-mind-of-native_2952446.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely…” — Nathaniel Hawthorne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As Hester Prynne seemed to see some trace of her own sin in every bosom, by the glare of the Scarlet Letter burning on her own; so Sylvia, living in the shadow of a household grief, found herself detecting various phases of her own experience in others. She had joined that sad sisterhood called disappointed women; a larger class than many deem it to be, though there are few of us who have not seen members of it. Unhappy wives; mistaken or forsaken lovers; meek souls, who make life a long penance for the sins of others; gifted creatures kindled into fitful brilliancy by some inward fire that consumes but cannot warm. These are the women who fly to convents, write bitter books, sing songs full of heartbreak, act splendidly the passion they have lost or never won. Who smile, and try to lead brave uncomplaining lives, but whose tragic eyes betray them, whose voices, however sweet or gay, contain an undertone of hopelessness, whose faces sometimes startle one with an expression which haunts the observer long after it is gone.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Louisa May Alcott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louisa-may-alcott/as-hester-prynne-seemed-to-see-some-trace-of-her-own-sin-in-every/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/louisa-may-alcott-318_books_as-hester-prynne-seemed-to-see-some-trac_1497118.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/louisa-may-alcott-318_books_as-hester-prynne-seemed-to-see-some-trac_1497118.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/louisa-may-alcott-318_books_as-hester-prynne-seemed-to-see-some-trac_1497118.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As Hester Prynne seemed to see some trace of her own sin in every bosom, by the glare of the Scarlet Letter…” — Louisa May Alcott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any Christian literary and cultural critic who makes too much room for Lady Gaga, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne, Huckleberry Finn, James Bond, Katniss Everdeen, Joe Brooks, Leroy Van Dyke, and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Those who enthusiastically embrace these cultural icons appear to be happy with the macro-cultural trends of the Christian apostate world. That being the case, what does this say about their faith, their worldview, and their own cultural trajectories? Could it be that they have embraced the tattooed Jesus---the false Christs of culture? Indeed, many have been wooed by a false prophet, a false priest, a false redeemer, and a false king. They have been rescued from the wrong sins and have taken on the wrong view of reality, truth, and. ethics. They have embraced the wrong religion, and they have joined the apostasy.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kevin Swanson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-swanson/there-is-no-room-for-rosy-eyed-acceptance-of-the-cultural-decay/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/kevin-swanson-36927_apostasy_there-is-no-room-for-rosy-eyed-acceptanc_1055290.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/kevin-swanson-36927_apostasy_there-is-no-room-for-rosy-eyed-acceptanc_1055290.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/kevin-swanson-36927_apostasy_there-is-no-room-for-rosy-eyed-acceptanc_1055290.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no room for rosy eyed acceptance of the cultural decay around us. Highly suspect will be any…” — Kevin Swanson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story about the scarlet letter which we might readily work up into a terrific legend. They averred, that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight, whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time. And we must needs say, it seared Hester's bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumor than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nathaniel Hawthorne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-vulgar-who-in-those-dreary-old-times-were-always-contributing-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_old-times_the-vulgar-who-in-those-dreary-old-times_369860.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_old-times_the-vulgar-who-in-those-dreary-old-times_369860.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_old-times_the-vulgar-who-in-those-dreary-old-times_369860.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested…” — Nathaniel Hawthorne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Lillian was determined that her next role would be Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and assumed she only needed to find the right actor to play opposite her as Reverend Dimmesdale. Mayer informed her there was a much larger issue at stake; The Scarlet Letter was on the Hays office “blacklist” of books that could not be filmed. The very idea of a blacklist was ridiculous to Lillian and she took up the matter directly with Will Hays. While he would occasionally publicly chastise the studios, Hays never forgot that the full name of his office was the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and worked to smooth the path any and every way he could. He told Lillian that the major source of objection was “the Protestant Church, especially the Methodists,” and directed her to the heads of several church and women’s organizations where she forcefully presented her case. Even with Hays’s assistance, no other actress had the personal and professional reputation pure enough to garner the response she received: the ban would be lifted if she was “personally responsible” for the film. Lillian turned her attention to finding the consummate Dimmesdale and Mayer suggested she watch Lars Hanson in The Saga of Gosta Berling. The studio boss had seen Mauritz Stiller’s film in Berlin the previous December and he immediately put the director and the film’s three stars, Hanson, Mona Martenson, and Greta Gustafsson, all under contract. Lillian agreed Hanson was “perfect” and was enthusiastic when Thalberg suggested the experienced Swede Victor Seastrom (Sjöström) direct, for she believed he had “Mr. Griffith’s sensitivity to atmosphere.” And so the ban was lifted from The Scarlet Letter, Lars Hanson was coming from Sweden, Victor Seastrom was assigned to direct, and now it was Irving Thalberg’s problem. He had no script. 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So strangely did they meet in the dim wood, that it was like the first encounter, in the world beyond the grave, of the two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering, in mutual dread, as not yet familiar with their state, more wonted to the companionship of disembodied beings. Each a ghost, and awe-stricken at the other ghost! They were awe-stricken likewise at themselves; because the crisis flung back to them their consciousness, and revealed to each heart its history and experience, as life never does, except at such breathless epochs. The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment. It was with fear, and tremulously, and, as it were, by a slow, reluctant necessity, that Arthur Dimmesdale put forth his hand, chill as death, and touched the chill hand of Hester Prynne. The grasp, cold as it was, took away what was the dreariest in the interview. 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