A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Topics: Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how...

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how...

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on -...

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on -...

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if...

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if...

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going...

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot...

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the...

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the...

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go...

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go...

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits...

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits...

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to...

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to...