English quotes Crucible

• Reverend Hale at the end of the play says “ I denounce the proceedings, I quit this court“
• Proctor not wanting to sign his confession:”Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name?I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

• Stage directions as Johon Proctor rips up his confession: “with a cry of his whole soul”
• How Elizabeth describes how Abigail is viewed:” She speak of Abigail, and I though she were a saint”
• Elizabeth last words to Proctor: “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”
• John Proctor rejects Abigail’s attempt to get together again: “I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again”
• Elizabeth tells Proctor to stop worrying about his past affair “I do not judge you.The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you”
• Proctor inner conflict with himself is described at the end of the play by:” God in heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor?”
• Elizabeth describes how People react to Abigail:” where she walks the crowd will part like the sea of Israel”
• Hale begins doubting the witch trials: “ I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it”
• How hale arrives in the play:”, setting down his books: … they are weighted with authority.”
• He is a sinner, a … against his own vision of decent conduct, … Proctor, respected and even feared in Salem, had come to see himself as a kind of fraud.
• It’s winter in here yet.
• When will you know me, woman? Were I stone I would have cracked for shame this seven month!
• I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
• But God I surely love.
• trembling, his life collapsing about him: I have known her, sir.I have known her.
• I have made a bell of my honour! I have rung the good of my good name.
• I cannot mount the gobbet like a Saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man.
• Whatever you will do, it is a good man does it.
• Do what you will. But let none be your judge. There be no higher judge under Heaven than Proctor is! Forgive me, forgive me, I never knew such goodness in the world!
• Proctor tears the paper and crumpled it, and he is weeping in fur, but erect.
• … now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to wave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.
• There is a terrible power in her ( Abigail’s) arms to-day
• the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
• a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it ,there be no road in between.
• Excellence, it is a natural lie tell; I beg you stop before another is condemned!
• I think sometimes, the man [Parris] dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meeting’ houses… I see no light of God in that man.
• I saw Sarah good with the Devil! I saw Good Osborn with the Devil!I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil.”
• “Betty you never say that again”
• “I’ll beat you Betty!”