- John Proctor: Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
- John Proctor: Go to bed, Mary.
- Mary Warren: I'll not be ordered to bed anymore, Mr. Proctor. I am 18 now and a woman... however single.
- John Proctor: If you wish to sit up, then sit up.
- Mary Warren: I wish to go to bed.
- John Proctor: Good night, then.
- Mary Warren: Good night.
- Abigail: Listen to me, John. I have money. We could see tomorrow on the ocean. The jailer will let you go. Let me call him. I must board ship, John. Will you not speak?
- John Proctor: It's not on a ship we'll meet again, Abigail, but in Hell.
- Ezekiel Cheever: Purge your contempt and give us the name of the man who accused Putnam. You will say it, Corey.
- Reverend Parris: Speak man, we cannot releant. What say you, Corey?
- Giles Corey: More... Weight.
- Reverend Parris: Lay on. You are commanded by the court. Lay On!
- Giles Corey: AAH!
- [he dies]
- Betty Parris: I want my mama.
- Abigail Williams: Your mama's dead and buried.
- Betty Parris: I'll find her! Let me fly! Mama! No!
- Abigail Williams: Why are you doing this? I told you, he knows now.
- Betty Parris: You drank blood Abby. Did you tell him that?
- [Abby slaps Betty]
- Abigail Williams: Don't you ever say that again!
- Betty Parris: You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!
- [Abby throws Betty on the bed and starts hitting her]
- Abigail Williams: Shut up! All of you. We danced. That is all, and mark this, if anyone breathe a word or the edge of a word about the other things, I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you! And you know I can do it. I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine. And I have seen some reddish work done at night. And I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
- John Proctor: Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time, but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
- Abigail Williams: Ay, but we did.
- Abigail Williams: A women comes to my bed every night now and tears out my eyes.
- Judge Danforth: Can you make out who she may be?
- Abigail Williams: I believe she be Reverend John Hale's wife sir.
- Judge Danforth: You must be mistaken my child. The wife of a minister be unlikely...
- Abigail Williams: Satan may reach anyone sir.
- Judge Sewall: Absolutely no one in the world is safe? Is that your meaning?
- Judge Danforth: You are mistaken child. Understand me?
- John Proctor: She is a whore!
- Judge Danforth: This will not pass. Can you prove this?
- John Proctor: I have known her sir! I have known her.
- Judge Danforth: In what time? What place?
- John Proctor: In the proper place where my beasts are bedded.
- Martha Corey: I, sir, am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.
- Judge Hathorne: If you know not what a witch is, how do you know you are not one?
- Judge Danforth: To your knowledge, has John Proctor committed the crime of lechery? Answer my question! Is your husband an adulterer?
- Elizabeth: No sir.
- Judge Danforth: Remove her, Marshal.
- John Proctor: Elizabeth, I have confessed it!
- Elizabeth: Oh, God!
- Judge Danforth: If you do not give me his name, I will have you arrested for contempt of court.
- Giles Corey: This is a hearing. You cannot arrest me for contempt of a hearing.
- Reverend Parris: Why did Goody Proctor discharge you from her service?
- Abigail Williams: Because I refused to be her slave.
- Reverend Parris: I have heard said that John Proctor and you...
- Abigail Williams: My name is good in the village! Elizabeth Proctor is an envious, gossipy liar!
- Abigail: Let *you* beware, Mr. Danforth. Do you think yourself so mighty the Devil may not turn *your* wits?
- Rev. John Hale: Do you know your commandments, Mr. Proctor?
- John Proctor: Aye.
- Rev. John Hale: Would you recite them please?
- John Proctor: The commandments?
- Rev. John Hale: Aye.
- John Proctor: Thou shalt not kill.
- Rev. John Hale: Aye.
- John Proctor: Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods, nor covet thy neighbors wives, thou shalt have no other Gods before me, thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain, thou shalt keep holy the sabbath day, thou shalt honor thy mother and father, thou shalt not bare to false witness... thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wives.
- Rev. John Hale: You said that one twice, Sir.
- John Proctor: Aye.
- Elizabeth: Adultry, John.
- John Proctor: Aye. You see, Sir, between the two of us, we do know them all.
- Reverend Parris: For having committed the crime of witchcraft, Rebecca Nurse, George Jacobs, Mary Easty, John Willard, Martha Corey, Elizabeth Howe, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Sibber, Hannah Bellows, Bridget Bishop and Sarah Osbourne are from this church with all its blessings and every hope of heaven hereby excommunicate.
- Marshal Herrick: [Martha's laughing at the girls after some dramatic testimony which culminated in them fainting] How dare you mock them, Martha Corey?
- Martha Corey: What else are fools good for?
- John Proctor: These are heavy books.
- Rev. John Hale: Well, they should be. They're weighted with authority.
- John Proctor: Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretenses ripped away. God's icy wind will blow.
- John Proctor: Why did you not call for a meeting before you decided to look for devils?
- Reverend Parris: Man cannot pick his teeth without some sort of meeting in this society. I'm sick of meetings.
- John Proctor: Society will not be a bag to swing around your head, Mr. Putnam.
- Reverend Parris: Now hear me, child. You must know that there is a faction in this church sworn to drive me from my pulpit.
- Abigail: I know that, sir.
- Reverend Parris: And they will destroy me now if my own house turns out to be the center of some obscene practice. Now, I saw someone naked running through the trees.
- Abigail: No one was.
- Reverend Parris: Don't lie to me! I saw it!
- Reverend Parris: I have invited the Reverend John Hale of Beverly to come to Salem. He has - he has delved deeply into all demonic arts and will surely go to the bottom of this.
- Abigail: I know how you sweated like a stallion whenever I'd come near you. I saw your face when she put me out. You loved me then, and you do now.
- John Proctor: Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time - but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.
- Abigail: Aye, but we did.
- Abigail: Some nights I wake and I find myself standing naked in the open doorway without a stitch on my body, and she makes me do that singing her damn Barbados songs, tempting me!
- Abigail: Oh, John. Give me a soft word.
- John Proctor: No, Abby. That's done with.
- Abigail: I am waitin' for you every night.
- John Proctor: You cannot. I never gave you hope to wait for me.
- Abigail: I have something better than hope, I think.
- John Proctor: I'm thinking if the crop comes good, I'll buy Joseph Ward's heifer. How would that please you?
- John Proctor: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I forgot Abigail.
- Elizabeth: And I.
- John Proctor: Spare me. You forget nothing and forgive nothing. In the seven months since she has gone, I have not moved from there to there without, I think, to please you - but an everlasting funeral still marches around your heart.
- Reverend Parris: I did discover my niece with a number of her friends dancing in the forest.
- Rev. John Hale: You permit dancing?