The Crucible

• I do not judge you. The magistrate that sits in your heart judges you. I never thought you were but a good man, John.
• I will curse her hotter than the oldest cinder in hell.
• Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest! But I'll plead no more! I see how your spirit twists around the single error of my life and i will never tear it free.
• My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me!
• You are a coward! Though you be ordained in gods own tears you be a coward now!
• On Sunday, let you come with me, and we'll walk the farm together; I never see such a load of flowers on the earth.
• Spare me! You forget nothing and forgive nothing.
• If you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now for surely my enemies will and they will ruin me with it.
• Long held hatreds of neighbours could now be expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the bibles charitable injunctions.
• The witch hunt was not, however a mere repression, It was also and as importantly a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins under the cover of accusations against the victims.
• Failure to convert the forest Indians to Christianity.
• I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down.
• He sits like some great bird; you'd not know he lived except he will take food from time to time.
• I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the court.
• Do what you will. But let none be your judge. There will be no higher judge under heaven than proctor is! Forgive me, forgive me John - I never knew such goodness in the world.
• They think to go like saints. I like not to spoil their names.
• I'd have you see some honesty in it. Let them that never lied die now to keep their souls.
• She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whores vengeance.
• You are pulling heaven down and raising up a whore!
• Beware this man, your excellency, this man is mischief.
• This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now by gods grace, the shining sun is up and them that fear not light will surely praise it.