| “Oh, it is a black mischief.” | John Proctor |
| “John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not.” | Elizabeth |
| “Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!” | John |
| “We must all love each other now, Goody Proctor.” | Mary Warren |
| “He sentenced her. He must. But not Sarah Good. For Sarah Good confessed, y’see.” | Mary Warren to the Proctors |
| “She never knew no commandments.” | Mary Warren to the Proctors |
| “It’s God’s work we do…I’m – I am an official of the court.” | Mary Warren to the Proctors |
| “And thinks to kill me, then to take my place.” | Elizabeth to John |
| “No – no, I come of my own, without the court’s authority. Hear me. I know not if you are aware, but your wife’s name is – mentioned in the court.” | Hale to John |
| “He preach nothin’ but golden candlesticks until he had them. I labor the earth from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows – it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. I think, sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meetin’ houses.” | John to Hale |
| “Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.” | Hale to Proctor |
| “If you think that I am one [a witch], then I say there are none.” | Elizabeth to Hale |
| “God keep you both; let the third child be quickly baptized, and go you without fail each Sunday in to Sabbath prayer; and keep a solemn, quiet way among you.” | Hale |
| “They take my wife….And his Rebecca!” | Giles |
| “If Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing’s left to stop the whole green world from burning. Let you rest upon the justice of the court; the court will send her home, I know it.” | Hale to Francis Nurse |
| “Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.” | Hale |
| “I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl.” | Elizabeth to Cheever |
| “And he [Parris] goes to save her [Abigail], and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she – testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in.” | Cheever to John Proctor |
| “Abby sat beside me when I made it [the poppet in court].” | Mary Warren |
| “Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers? I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem – vengeance is walking Salem.” | John Proctor |
| “You are a coward! Though you be ordained in God’s own tears, you are a coward now!” | John Proctor to Hale |
Crucible Act 2 Quotes
February 26, 2020