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Arthur Miller Quotes | Quotes said by Arthur Miller

  • Arthur Miller Quote #1

    ...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.


  • Arthur Miller Quote #2

    [W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #3

    A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #4

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

  • Arthur Miller Quote #5

    An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #6

    Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #7

    Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #8

    Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!

  • Arthur Miller Quote #9

    Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #10

    Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #11

    Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #12

    HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

  • Arthur Miller Quote #13

    Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!

  • Arthur Miller Quote #14

    I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or be ridiculous - you've got to stand there nobly and serene, and let death run his tape on your arms and around your belly and up your crotch until he's got you fitted for that black suit. And I can't, I won't!... So I'm left with wrestling with this anachronistic energy which God has charged me with and I will use it till the dirt is shoveled in my mouth! Life! Life! Fuck death and dying!

  • Arthur Miller Quote #15

    I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #16

    I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence 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! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

  • Arthur Miller Quote #17

    I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #18

    I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

  • Arthur Miller Quote #19

    It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

  • Arthur Miller Quote #20

    Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #21

    Mother: What more can we be?

    Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #22

    Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #23

    Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #24

    On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #25

    Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #26

    Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone- I have no proof for it.
    Elizabeth: You were alone with her?
    Proctor: (stubbornly) For a moment alone, aye.
    Elizabeth: Why, then, it is not as you told me.
    Proctor: (his anger rising) For a moment, I say. The others come in soon after.
    Elizabeth: (as if she has lost all faith in him) Do as you wish then. (she turns)
    Proctor: Woman. (she turns to him) I'll not have your suspicion any more.
    Elizabeth: (a little loftily) I have no-
    Proctor: I'll not have it!
    Elizabeth: Then let you not earn it.
    Proctor: Now look you-
    Elizabeth: I see what I see, John.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #27

    See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

  • Arthur Miller Quote #28

    The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #29

    The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

  • Arthur Miller Quote #30

    The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

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