The Crucible Quotes

“I thought, sir, to put some questions as to the Christian character of this house, if you’ll permit me.”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me!”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character.”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Why, it is simple. I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang. Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I have given you my soul! Leave me my name!”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“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.”

• Rev. John Hale

• Rev. Samuel Parris

• Deputy Governor Danforth

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“That bloody mongrel Walcott charge her: y’see, he buy a pig of my wife four or five year ago, and the pig died soon after.”

• John Proctor

• Mr. Thomas Putnum

• Mr. Cheever

• Giles Corey

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I will not give you no name. I mentioned my wife’s name once and I’ll burn in hell long enough for that. I stand mute.”

• John Proctor

• Mr. Thomas Putnum

• Mr. Cheever

• Giles Corey

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Why--! The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world!”

• Rebecca Nurse

• Abigail Williams

• Elizabeth Proctor

• Mary Warren

• Tituba

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3