Scarlet Letter Quotes

“Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?”

— Kate Atkinson

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

— Mark McKinnon

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

— Toni Braxton

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything.…

— Tool

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better…

— Peter De Vries

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist,…

— Julie Taymor

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

— Bryan Cranston

“They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother…

— Amy Hatvany (Yurk

“The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Once I was back in the office, I stopped by Mags’s cubicle and rested my arms on the top of one of…

— Erin Lyon

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some…

— Kieron Gillen

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree…

— Hugh Hefner

I'm so proud of the community we've been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures…

— Azar Nafisi

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,…

— Sara Shepard

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Ironically, we were studying 'The Scarlet Letter,' but isn't that always the way? The books you read in class always seems to…

— Easy A

“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Many of you remember The Scarlet Letter, the novel that wardrobed its protagonist in a stigma or sign of reproach. But “A”…

— Beth Moore

“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

“Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he…

— Kathy Acker

“Lillian was determined that her next role would be Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and assumed she only needed…

— Cari Beauchamp

“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into…

— Emma Goldman

~Words hurt and words cause pain. words coat your heart in a vast lonely stain such words have made me wonder inside…

— Angel_eyes

She is running A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction She is trying But the canyon's ever widening In the…

— Casting Crowns

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Regardless of any thing that I've done that people might think, 'Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,' that's not how it…

— Hannah Brown

“I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small…

— Julie Metz

Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out…

— Carrie Brownstein

“All over the gray facade of his father's house in scarlet letters he wrote: ELLIOT SCHAFER. He almost added: "was here" but…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“But if Americans chose to pit themselves against Russia, thinking she was feeble and weak, they would be surprised. A student in…

— Jason Matthews