Arthur Miller

Personality always wins the day.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself

I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?

Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates — that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized — I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey — I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.

Isn't that — isn't that remarkable? Biff — he likes me!

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.