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!

He have his goodness now. God forbid, I take it from him!

I know you, John Proctor! You have been trying to undermine me since the start!

It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

We must all face ourselves!

But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road in between.

What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth?

A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it!

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!

Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers?

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

I’ll tell you what’s walking in Salem—vengeance is walking in Salem.

We burn a hot fire here! It melts down all concealment.

There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head?

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

The Crucible Quotes part 2

Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!

We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house.

I am amazed you do not see what weighty work we do.

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 been hurt, Mr. Danforth; I have seen my