Arthur Miller Quotes

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

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.

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

The house is two stories high and has seven rooms. It would have cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.

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.

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.

More Weight
-Giles Corey-

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it.

The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there — it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.