Scarlet Letter quotes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "I pray you, good Sir. Who is this woman? - and wherefore is she here set up to public shame." | Roger Chillingworth |
| "I am stranger, and have been a wanderer, sorely against my will. I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen folk, to the southward." | Roger Chillingworth |
| "Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use, whether of tenderness or terror, such as might prevail over your hardness and obstinacy." | Rev. John Wilson |
| "Speak to the woman, my brother. Exhort her to confess the truth!" | Rev. John Wilson |
| "I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and thy fellow-sufferer!" | Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale |
| "They have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, an then and thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom." | Townsman |
| "But he will be known! -he will be known! -he will be known!" | Roger Chillingworth |
| "Cans't thou tell me, my child, who made thee?" | Rev. John Wilson |
| "Hist, hist! Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one." | Mistress Hibbins |
| "From the moment that we came down the old church steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale of fire of the scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path." | Roger Chillingworth |
| "Come and look into this fair garden. It may be we shall see flowers there; more beautiful ones than we find in the woods." | Hester Prynne |
| "She is my happiness! She is my torture nonetheless." | Hester Prynne |
| "Speak thou for me! Thou wast my pastor, and hadst changed my soul, knowest me better than these men can." | Hester Prynne |
| "There is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side! Come, therefore, and let us sling mud at them!" | Children |
| "My old studies in alchemy and my sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed in the kindly properties of simples, have made a better physician of me than that many that can claim the medical degree." | Roger Chillingworth |
| "I shall seek this man as I have sought truth in books." | Roger Chillingworth |
| "A good evening to you, venerable Father Wilson! Come up hither, I pray you, and pass a pleasant hour with me!" | Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale |
| "I have been watching at a deathbed—at Governor Winthrop's deathbed..." | Hester Prynne |
| "I would speak a word with you. A word that concerns us much." | Hester Prynne |
| "You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death; and still he knows you not." | Hester Prynne |
| "It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may. Now go thy ways, and deal as thou wilt with yonder man." | Roger Chillingworth |
| "The sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand here, and let me run and catch it." | Pearl |
| "Once in my life I met the Black Man." | Hester Prynne |
| "The people reverence thee, and surely thou workest good among them! Doth this bring thee no comfort?" | Hester Prynne |
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