the crucible quotes

Cards (100)

  • "there is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "now tell me true, Abigail, and i pray for you feel the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry's at stake. My Ministry and perhaps your cousin's life" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "Excellency, you surely cannot think to let so vile a lie be spread in open court" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "i never found any of them naked" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "Let her pretend she is attacked now, let her faint" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "Praise God" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "Excellency, but these people have great weight yet in the town" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "You cannot hang this sort. There is danger for me. I dare not step outside at night" - Reverend Samuel Parris
  • "You drank the blood, Abby! You didn't tell him that!" - Betty Parris
  • "No, no, don't hang Tituba! I tell him i don't desire to work for him, sir" - Tituba
  • "Oh, it be no Hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasureman in barbados, him be singin and dancin in Barbados. It's you folks - you riles him up round here" - Tituba
  • "And mark this. Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and i will come to you in the black of some terrible night and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you" - Abigail Williams
  • "it's a bitter woman, a lying, cold, snivelling woman" - Abigail Williams
  • "Gah! i'd almost forgotten how strong you are, John Proctor" - Abigail Williams
  • "Give me a word, John. A soft word." - Abigail Williams
  • "i saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and do now!" - Abigail Williams
  • "I know you John, I know you" - Abigail Williams
  • "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!"- Abigail Williams
  • "i never sold myself! i'm a good girl! i'm a proper girl!" - Abigail Williams
  • "Sometimes i wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! i always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear he singing her Barbados songs and tempting me" - Abigail Williams
  • " i want to open myself! i want the light of God, i wasn't the sweet love of Jesus! i danced for the Devil; i saw him; i wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; i kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" - Abigail Williams
  • "Let you beware, Mr Danforth. Think you be so mighty that the power of Hell may not turn your wits?" - Abigail Williams
  • "Why do you come, yellow bird?" - Abigail Williams
  • "Oh, Mary, this is black art to change your shape" - Abigail Williams
  • "I take it on my soul, but who else may surely tell us what person murdered my babies" - Putnams
  • "There is a murdering witch upon us, who wishes to remain in the dark" - The putnams
  • "Abby, we've got to tell. Withcery's a hangin' error, a hangin' like they done in Boston two year ago" - Mary Warren
  • "That were pretence, sir" - Mary Warren
  • " i have noo sense of it now" - Mary Warren
  • "Abby, don't do that!" - Mary Warren
  • "(pointing at proctor): You're the Devil's man!" - Mary Warren
  • "Abby, I'll never hurt you more" - Mary Warren
  • "i'll murder you, ' he says, 'if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court' " - Mary Warren
  • "Abby i never give you hope to wait for me" - John Proctor
  • "Ah, you're wicked yet" - John Proctor
  • "Abby i may think of you softly from time to time, but i will cut off my hand before i'll ever reach for you again" - John Proctor
  • "you'll speak nothing of Elizabeth" - John Proctor
  • "Can you speak one minute without we land in hell again? i am sick of hell!" - John Proctor
  • "Why, then i must find it and join it." - John Proctor
  • "it's well seasoned" - John Proctor