"The Crucible" Quotes

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!

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!

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

I cannot sleep for dreamin'; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through some door.

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.

I think she'll wake when she tires hard enough. Let her come when she will; I will deny her nothing.

I may speak my heart, I think!

I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

I have seen too much of the devil's work to ever confuse him with a humble minister!