The Crucible Quotes by Arthur Miller

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
-The Crucible quotes by Arthur Miller

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“More Weight
-Giles Corey-”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you comin’ through the door.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“It’s the proper morning to fly into Hell.”
-The Crucible quotes by Arthur Miller

“The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone…”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“We vote by name in this society, not by acreage.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“He knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“…though our hearts break, we cannot flinch…”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“She catches a weakening in herself and downs it. She will not let herself be drowned in the sea that threatens her.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Elizabeth, with great fear: I will fear nothing.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“John – tell me, are we lost?”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Knowing smile on his face: What’s this mischief here?”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“it is an allegory of our times.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.”
-The Crucible quotes by Arthur Miller

“The human reality of what happens to millions is only for God to grasp; but what happens to individuals is another matter and within the range of mortal understanding.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“I may think of you softly from time to time.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller

“John Proctor’s flaw is his failure, until the last moment, to distinguish guilt from responsibility; America’s is to believe that it is at the same time both guilty and without flaw.”
-The Crucible, Arthur Miller