Salem Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her…
— Arthur Miller
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I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
— Rose McGowan
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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
— Mark Twain
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The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens…
— Arthur Miller
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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him…
— John George Nicolay
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There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help…
— Sarah Vowell
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Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in…
— John George Nicolay
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I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an…
— Anna Camp
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!
— Stacy Schiff
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Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably…
— Rob Zombie
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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
— John Updike
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We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes…
— Arthur Miller
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Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had…
— Susan Abulhawa
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- L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do you even look…
— Kami Garcia
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers;…
— Alice Morse Earle
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Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
— Janet Montgomery
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the…
— Carlisle Floyd
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Ill tell you whats walking Salem, vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are…
— John Proctor
Who Wrote These Salem Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Salem Quotes as follows: