"Easy reading is damned hard writing." — Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Easy reading is damned hard writing."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne has 203 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. — Paul Cezanne
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both.… — Jennifer Aniston
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them… — Charles Spurgeon
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a… — John Aubrey
Golf always makes me so damned angry. — George V
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of… — Brigit of Kildare
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very… — Dick Cheney

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