| A | B |
| Parris | They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house." |
| Abigail | "I have seen you since she put me out; I have seen you nights...I have a sense for heat, John" |
| Mrs. Putnam | "The psalm! The psalm! She cannot bear to hear the Lord's name! |
| Rebecca | "There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits |
| Mrs. Putnam | "There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!" |
| Hale | "They [his books] must be; they are weighted with authority." |
| Elizabeth | "If it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not." |
| Mary Warren | "He sentenced her. He must. But not Sarah Good. For Sarah Good confessed, y'see." |
| Elizabeth | "And thinks to kill me, then to take my place." |
| Proctor | when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows - it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. |
| Hale | "Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small." |
| Elizabeth | "I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl." |
| Proctor | "Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. |
| Parris | "He's come to overthrow this court, Your Honor!" |
| Danforth | "A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between." |
| Proctor | "I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name." |
| Hale | "Private vengeance is working through this testimony!" |
| Elizabeth | He were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment |
| Proctor | I have given you my soul; leave my name! |
| Elizabeth | He have his goodness now. God forbid take it from him! |