Arthur Miller Quotes

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

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...

Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a univer...

To admit what you see endangers principles.

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen t...

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile are...

I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with se...

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided em...

Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now,...

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

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what ...

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

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands st...

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certa...

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

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

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

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

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the v...

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and cha...

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will d...

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a r...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth m...

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might se...

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

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

I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think o...

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who...

...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The comprom...

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ev...

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

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.