The Crucible (1996)
Paul Scofield: Judge Thomas Danforth
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Quotes
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Judge Danforth : Mr. Parris, you are a brainless man!
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Judge Danforth : Who weeps for these weeps for corruption.
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John Proctor : Sir, I am no lawyer.
Judge Danforth : The pure in heart need no lawyers, Mr. Proctor.
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Judge Danforth : John Proctor, I've seen your power. You are combined with Anti-Christ!
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Judge Danforth : A person is either with this court or against it. There be no road between. This is a new time - a precise time. We live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace the good folk and the evil entirely separate. I hope you will find your place with us.
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John Proctor : Mary, tell the Governor how she led you to dance in the woods.
Reverend Parris : This man is blackening my name since I came to Salem!
Judge Danforth : What is this dancing?
John Proctor : Mr. Parris discovered them himself in the dead of night and they have danced there naked.
Judge Danforth : Naked?
Rev. John Hale : When I first arrived from Beverly, Mr. Parris told me that.
Reverend Parris : I did not say they were naked!
Judge Danforth : But she have danced?
Reverend Parris : Aye.
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Judge Danforth : Dear friend, no court can wait for saints to provide evidence. I shall be scrupulously just. Surely you will rest on that.
Judge Sewall : I never doubted that, Thomas.
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Judge Danforth : Consider now. In an ordinary crime, witnesses are called to prove guilt or innocence but witchcraft is an invisible crime. Therefore, who may witness it? The witch, of course, and the victim. Now, we cannot expect the witch to accuse herself, can we? Therefore, we may only rely upon her victims.
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Judge Danforth : Your wife, Mr. Proctor, you say is an honest woman.
John Proctor : In her life, sir, she have never lied.
Judge Danforth : And when she put this girl out of your house, she put her out for a harlot and knew her for a harlot?
John Proctor : Aye, sir, she knew her for a harlot.
Judge Danforth : If she tell me, child, it were for harlotry may God spread His mercy on you.
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Judge Sewall : They're sick of hanging.
Judge Danforth : I tell you, Samuel, I shall not rest until every inch of this province belongs again to God.
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Judge Danforth : To your own knowledge has John Proctor committed the crime of lechery? Answer my question. Is your husband an adulterer?
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Judge Danforth : Now, we shall touch the bottom of this swamp.