Post by missmcgrory on Oct 10, 2014 8:03:55 GMT
“The Crucible” top 30 quotes
1. “…ah you’re wicked yet, aren’t y’!”
2. “..I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again.”
3. “We vote by name in this society, not by acreage.”
4. “I may speak my heart I think.”
5. “I mean to please you Elizabeth.”
6. “You ought to bring some flowers into the house…It’s winter in here yet.”
7. “As though I come into a court when I come into this house.”
8. “I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.”
9. “Were I stone I would have cracked for shame this seven month.”
10. “I will fall like an ocean on that court! Fear nothing Elizabeth!”
11. “I – cannot faint now, Sir.”
12. “Let you beware, Mr Danforth. Think you be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits?"
13. "How do you call Heaven! Whore! Whore!"
14. "[Trembling, his life collapsing about him] I have known her, sir. I have known her."
15. "God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat."
16. "I have made a bell of my honour! I have rung the doom of my good name."
17. "In her life, sir, she have never lied.”
18. "My husband is a good and righteous man."
19. “I believe him! This girl has always struck me false!”
20. “Mary, God damns all liars!”
21. “You’re the Devil’s man!”
22. “I say God is dead!”
23. “For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud- God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!"
24. "I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man...Nothing's spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before."
25. "John, it come to naught that I should forgive you, if you'll not forgive yourself. It is not my soul, John, it is yours"
26. "I have sins of my own to count. It takes a cold wife to prompt lechery."
27. "Forgive me, forgive me John- I never knew such goodness in the world!"
28. "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!"
29. “You have made your magic now, for now I do think I do see some shred of goodness in John Proctor."
30. "He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"
1. “…ah you’re wicked yet, aren’t y’!”
2. “..I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again.”
3. “We vote by name in this society, not by acreage.”
4. “I may speak my heart I think.”
5. “I mean to please you Elizabeth.”
6. “You ought to bring some flowers into the house…It’s winter in here yet.”
7. “As though I come into a court when I come into this house.”
8. “I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.”
9. “Were I stone I would have cracked for shame this seven month.”
10. “I will fall like an ocean on that court! Fear nothing Elizabeth!”
11. “I – cannot faint now, Sir.”
12. “Let you beware, Mr Danforth. Think you be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits?"
13. "How do you call Heaven! Whore! Whore!"
14. "[Trembling, his life collapsing about him] I have known her, sir. I have known her."
15. "God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat."
16. "I have made a bell of my honour! I have rung the doom of my good name."
17. "In her life, sir, she have never lied.”
18. "My husband is a good and righteous man."
19. “I believe him! This girl has always struck me false!”
20. “Mary, God damns all liars!”
21. “You’re the Devil’s man!”
22. “I say God is dead!”
23. “For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud- God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!"
24. "I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man...Nothing's spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before."
25. "John, it come to naught that I should forgive you, if you'll not forgive yourself. It is not my soul, John, it is yours"
26. "I have sins of my own to count. It takes a cold wife to prompt lechery."
27. "Forgive me, forgive me John- I never knew such goodness in the world!"
28. "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!"
29. “You have made your magic now, for now I do think I do see some shred of goodness in John Proctor."
30. "He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"