Arthur Miller Quotes

"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
-Arthur Miller

"Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from."
-Arthur Miller in Writing quotes.

"I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door."
-Arthur Miller in Dreams quotes.

"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
-Arthur Miller

"If I see an ending, I can work backward."
-Arthur Miller

"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."
-Arthur Miller

"Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood."
-Arthur Miller

"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."
-Arthur Miller

"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
-Arthur Miller

"The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star."
-Arthur Miller

"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted."
-Arthur Miller

"Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not."
-Arthur Miller