| No man may longer doubt the powers of the dark are gathered in monstrous attack upon this village. There is too much evidence now to deny it. | Rev. Hale |
| You are a coward! Though you be ordained in God’s own tears, you are a coward now! | John Proctor |
| Child, you are certain this be your natural memory? May it be, perhaps, that someone conjures you even now to say this? | Marshal Herrick |
| …in my ignorance I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court. | Rev. Hale |
| She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without a word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says… | Ezekiel Cheever |
| …we are only what we always were, but naked now, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow! | John Proctor |
| This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot droppin’ seeds in it. | John Proctor |
| I cannot think the Devil may own a woman’s soul, Mr. Hale, when she keeps an upright way, as I have. I am a good woman. | Elizabeth Proctor |
| I cannot do it, I cannot! | Mary Warren |
| She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this! | Elizabeth Proctor |
| We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom… | John Proctor |
| In God’s name… I cannot help myself. I must chain them all. Now let you keep inside this house. | Marshal Herrick |
| …when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows – it hurt my prayer, sir. | John Proctor |
| I saved her life today! | Mary Warren |
| Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you’re not, you’re not, and let you remember it! | John Proctor |
| I have seen too many frightful proofs in court – the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points! | Rev. Hale |
| The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world! | Elizabeth Proctor |
| I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone – I have no proof for it. | John Proctor |
| I feel a misty coldness climbin’ up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to creep, and I feel a clamp around my neck… | Mary Warren |
| When the children wake, speak nothing of witchcraft – it will frighten them. | Elizabeth Proctor |
| I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see what weighty work we do. | Mary Warren |
| I never said my wife were a witch… I only said she were reading books! | Giles Cory |
| I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free! | John Proctor |
| I think she sees another meaning in that blush. | Elizabeth Proctor |
| …your justice would freeze beer! | John Proctor |
| Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all. I shall pray God open up our eyes. | Rev. Hale |
| The promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl! | John Proctor |
| A fart on Thomas Putnum, that is what I say to that! | Giles Cory |
| I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed to believe them, and I – It were only sport in the beginning… | Mary Warren |
| I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court! | Rev. Hale |
| Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims – and they do testify, the children certainly do testify. | Danforth |
| A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! | John Proctor |
| He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign… | Mary Warren |
| He plow on Sunday, sir. | Ezekiel Cheever |
| A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. | John Proctor |
| And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature? | Giles Cory |
| There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it. | John Proctor |
| I have seen them stuck by pins and slashed by daggers. I have until this moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me. | Danforth |
| I’ll not conceal it, my hand shakes yet as with a wound! I pray you, sir, THIS argument let lawyers present to you. | Rev. Hale |
| Goody Proctor always kept poppets. | Giles Cory |
| I thought I saw my husband somewhat turning from me. | Elizabeth Proctor |
| This man is killing his neighbors for their land! | Giles Cory |
| I say – I say – God is dead! | John Proctor – If all these liars/judges are considered “holy” then God must be dead |
| I am thirty-three time in court in my life. And always plaintiff, too. | Danforth |
| Let YOU beware, Mr. Danforth. Think you to be so mighty that the power of Hell may not turn YOUR wits? | Abigail |
| Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it! | John Proctor |
| I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes. | Danforth |
| 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! | John Proctor |
| Thirty-one pound is gone. I am penniless. | Parris |
| …what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. | Rev. Hale |
| Nothing’s spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before. | John Proctor |
| Quail not before God’s judgment in this, for it may well be God dams a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride. | Rev. Hale |
| Are you stone? I tell you true, woman, had I no other proof of your unnatural life, your dry eyes now would be sufficient evidence that you delivered up your soul to Hell! | Danforth |
| Oh, John – God send his mercy on you! | Rebecca Nurse |
| Mr. Danforth, I gave them all my word no harm would come to them for signing this. | Francis Nurse |
| I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did… | Elizabeth Proctor |
| Oh, Majesty! Comin’, comin’!…He’s here, His Majesty’s come! | Tituba |
| …you mistake me. I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie. | Danforth |
| Dam the village! I confess to God, and God has seen my name on this! It is enough! | John Proctor |
| Hang them high over the town! Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption! | Danforth |
| Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house – a dagger clattered to the ground. | Parris |
| I have three children – how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends? | John Proctor |
| There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head! | Rev. Hale |
| You misunderstood, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just. | Danforth |
| He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! | Elizabeth Proctor |
The Crucible Quotes
March 3, 2020