the crucible

Elizabeth Proctor

Said to John Proctor: 'John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not.'

Mary Warren

Said to Elizabeth Proctor: 'We must all love each other now, Goody Proctor.'

John Proctor

Said to Reverend Hale: 'He preach nothin' but golden candlesticks until he had them...'

Reverend Hale

Said to John Proctor: 'Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.'

Reverend Hale

Said to John and Elizabeth Proctor: 'God keep you both; let the third child be quickly baptized...'

Reverend Hale

Said to John and Elizabeth Proctor: 'If Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning...'

Reverend Hale

Said to John Proctor: 'Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.'

Ezekiel Cheever

Said to John Proctor: 'And he [Parris] goes to save her [Abigail]...'

John Proctor

Said to Reverend Hale: 'Is the accuser always holy now?'

John Proctor

Said to Hale: 'You are a coward! Though you be ordained in God's own tears...'

Danforth

Said to John Proctor: 'Do you know, Mr. Proctor, that the entire contention of the state in these trials is that the voice of Heaven...'

Parris

Said to Proctor: 'I think not, or you should surely know that Cain were an upright man...'

Hale

Said to Danforth: 'We cannot blink it more. There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country.'

Danforth

Said to Hale: 'Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country...'

Parris

Said to Danforth: 'We are here, Your Honor, precisely to discover what no one has ever seen.'

Abigail

Said to Danforth and the court: 'I - I know not. A wind, a cold wind, has come.'

John Proctor

Said to himself and possibly the court: 'I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name.'

Giles Corey

Said to Danforth: 'Private vengeance is working through this testimony!'

Proctor

Said to the court, girls: 'Praise God!' 'I say - I say - God is dead!'

John Proctor

Said to Danforth: 'A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer...'