His reply to a shoe manufacturer who had asked why Miller's job should be subsidized when his was not, as recounted at a London press conference. The Guardian (25 January 1990)
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John Proctor
Source: The Crucible (1953)
“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals…”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Source: Death of a Salesman
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Ben
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Source: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Reverend John Hale
Source: The Crucible (1953)
“Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”
Source: The Crucible (1953)
Context: Proctor: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail, and —
Elizabeth: And I.
Proctor: Spare me! You forget nothin' and forgive nothin.' Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she is gone. I have not moved from there to here without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
Elizabeth: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John — only somewhat bewildered.
Proctor: Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!
“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Source: Death of a Salesman
“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Source: Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Linda
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Context: I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.
“He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!”
Elizabeth Proctor
Source: The Crucible (1953)