Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
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
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
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
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.
Will you let me go for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Chris: I don’t know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.
When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now
Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it.
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
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
The only thing you’ve got in this world is what you can sell.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.
Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that’s how he died.
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.
Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
I know you’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
The word “now” is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.
You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.