Hester Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish,… — Robert Burchfield
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
Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be… — John Irving
Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush,… — Sara Shepard
Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well... — Philip Reeve
Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those… — Philip Pullman
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working… — Barbara Kingsolver
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated… — Jacob Epstein

Who Wrote These Hester Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 10 Hester Quotes as follows: