All NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Quotes about “Character”

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, orâ€”and the outward semblance is the sameâ€”crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.”
“It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.”
“Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.”

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