The Scarlet Letter

Book · 5 characters · 507 quotes · 1850

Quotes from The Scarlet Letter

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"We have wronged each other"
Hester Prynne Truth
A
"Canst thou forgive me now?"
Arthur Dimmesdale
R
"I have a strange joy in thy curse"
Roger Chillingworth Power
P
"Art thou my mother?"
Pearl Family
P
"Show them a token!"
Pearl Truth
H
"Thy Heavenly Father sendeth it!"
Hester Prynne Faith
P
"Take it off! She may cover her bosom with it!"
Pearl Freedom
H
"Temptation hath been beforehand with us"
Hester Prynne Wisdom
A
"Do I feel joy again?"
Arthur Dimmesdale Happiness
R
"Now I know thy secret!"
Roger Chillingworth Truth
H
"I am not to be within the scope of man's ordinances"
Hester Prynne Freedom
A
"Thou shalt forgive me!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
H
"What we did had a consecration"
Hester Prynne Love
R
"I have already told thee what I am! A fiend!"
Roger Chillingworth Truth
H
"Doth the universe lie within the compass of yonder town?"
Hester Prynne Freedom
P
"Art thou not afraid of nightmares and hideous dreams?"
Pearl Fear
R
"Thou wilt take her with thee? She is thine own child!"
Roger Chillingworth Family
H
"Better to starve with the symbol than to preserve it"
Hester Prynne Courage
H
"Thou shalt not go alone"
Hester Prynne Friendship
A
"Pity me!—Look at me with those blue eyes"
Arthur Dimmesdale
H
"What lies before us is not so much the past as the future"
Hester Prynne Hope
R
"Hadst thou sought the whole wide world over"
Roger Chillingworth
A
"Sin, Sin, Sin!"
Arthur Dimmesdale Faith
H
"Thou art not evil!—yet Pearl hath told me of thy doings"
Hester Prynne Relationships
A
"There is a fatality, a feeling as if I had been played upon by the Devil"
Arthur Dimmesdale Fear
P
"My mother bore me in sin, and shame hath been my birthright"
Pearl Family
H
"Let the black flower blossom as it may"
Hester Prynne Hope
R
"Thou hast escaped me!"
Roger Chillingworth Power
H
"I pity thee, for the good that has been wasted"
Hester Prynne Wisdom
H
"What we did had a consecration of its own"
Hester Prynne Love