Arthur Miller's The Crucible Quotes

“More Weight. Giles Corey”
― Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller's The Crucible

“It is a lie.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Elizabeth, with sarcasm and a sense of being lost: Oh indeed! Indeed!”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants...”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say―I say―God is dead!
PARRIS: Hear it, hear it!
PROCTOR, laughs insanely, then: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud―God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together! You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see
his filthy face! And it is my face and yours, Danforth! For them
that quail to bring men out of their ignorance, at least I have
quailed and as you quail now when you know in all your black
hearts that this be fraud – God damns our kind especially, and
we will burn, we will burn together!”
― Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller's The Crucible