102 quotes
The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy.
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
The Crucible (1953)
Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
The Crucible (1953)
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
Is the accuser always holy now?
The Crucible (1953)
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
The Crucible (1953)
A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!
The Crucible (1953)
Officials wept; they were speechless after the play, and everyone knew why. It was because they had to enforce the kind of repression the play was attacking.
I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
You cut your life down for spite!
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Personality always wins the day.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? — The perfume?
After the Fall (1964)
I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.
The Crucible (1953)
John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!
The Crucible (1953)
We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free...
Death of a Salesman (1949)
I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't write it because it seems a twice-told tale.