Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
ordinary poison quiet
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
memories men ideas
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
beautiful sweet spring
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.
character moments difficult
Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.
office age genius
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.
christian window cathedrals
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.
trust men might
Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.
reading writing easy
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
letters would-be form
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
oxford despair world
The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.
attitude butterfly iron
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.
butterfly like-a-butterfly
Happiness is like a butterfly...
risk made
Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.
wish world might
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.