Crucible Quotes

Now look you, your punishment will come in its time. But 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.

I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

In God's name, John, I cannot help myself. I must chain them all.

This is a hearing; you cannot clap me for contempt of a hearing.

I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes?

You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.

Why I made it in the court, sir, and gave it to Goody Proctor tonight.

A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now.

I take it on my own soul, but who else bay surely tell us what person murdered my babies?

You drank blood, Abby! You didn't tell him that!

I say, I say, God is dead!

I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!

I'll cut your throat, Putnam, I'll kill you yet!

And George Jacobs, he comes again and again and raps me with his stick, the same spot every night all this week. Look at the lump I have.

We Goin' to Barbados, soon the Devil gits here with the feathers and the wings.