457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

The job is to ask questions – it always was – and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they’ll take blame.

If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.

In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature an invisible crime, is it not? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims – and they do testify, the children certainly do testify.

PARRIS: I want a mark of confidence, is all! I am your third preacher in seven years. I do not wish to be put out like the cat whenever some majority feels the whim.

I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. “More weight,” he says. And died.

You want to live? You better figure out your life.