Quotes by Arthur Miller

“I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartmentall alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a ca...”

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

“cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we s...”

“Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.”

“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale”

“HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”

“Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a ...”

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

“I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?”

“The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we cant get out of within.”

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”

“[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucif...”

“I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing." - Mary Warren”

“To admit what you see endangers principles.”

“...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of o...”