Arthur Miller Quotes

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

And yet one can’t forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Americans don’t speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others… A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull… Glamour is the power to rearrange people’s emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one’s environment.