A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller - Quotations.
A View from the Bridge - Quotations
Alfieri:
“A lawyer in his fifties turning grey; he is portly, good humoured, and thoughtful”
“only thought of in connection with disaster”
“in Sicily, from where their fathers come the law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten.”
“Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. Justice is very important here.”
“And now we are quite civilised, quite American. We settle for half, and I like it better.”
“the thought comes…another lawyer, quite differently dressed, heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I and watched it run it’s bloody course.”
“He was a good man as he had to be in a life that was hard and even.”
“destiny”
“a trouble that would not go away”
“slipped”
“as [it] is inclined to do so”
“When I saw him coming, I knew why I had waited…almost transfixed I had come to feel.”
“I will never forget how dark the room became when he looked at me; his eyes were like tunnels.”
“Nothing at all had really happened.”
“Morally and legally you have no rights”
“I’m not only telling you now, I’m warning you - the law is nature. The law is only a word for what’s right to happen. When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now. Let her go.”
“To promise not to kill is not dishonourable”
“if he obeys the law he lives”
“Only God makes justice”
“leaving him [Alfieri] in a glow”
“but the truth is holy”
“something perversely pure calls to me from his memory…and so I mourn him - I admit - with a certain…alarm.”
Eddie:
“pleased and therefore shy about it”
“you’re walkin’ wavy”
“the heads are turnin’ like windmills”
“I’m responsible for you. You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things.”
“You’re getting’ to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more”
“Beatrice, all I’m worried about is you got such a big heart”
“I just don’t want you bein’ pushed around, that’s all. You got too
Alfieri:
“A lawyer in his fifties turning grey; he is portly, good humoured, and thoughtful”
“only thought of in connection with disaster”
“in Sicily, from where their fathers come the law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten.”
“Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. Justice is very important here.”
“And now we are quite civilised, quite American. We settle for half, and I like it better.”
“the thought comes…another lawyer, quite differently dressed, heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I and watched it run it’s bloody course.”
“He was a good man as he had to be in a life that was hard and even.”
“destiny”
“a trouble that would not go away”
“slipped”
“as [it] is inclined to do so”
“When I saw him coming, I knew why I had waited…almost transfixed I had come to feel.”
“I will never forget how dark the room became when he looked at me; his eyes were like tunnels.”
“Nothing at all had really happened.”
“Morally and legally you have no rights”
“I’m not only telling you now, I’m warning you - the law is nature. The law is only a word for what’s right to happen. When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now. Let her go.”
“To promise not to kill is not dishonourable”
“if he obeys the law he lives”
“Only God makes justice”
“leaving him [Alfieri] in a glow”
“but the truth is holy”
“something perversely pure calls to me from his memory…and so I mourn him - I admit - with a certain…alarm.”
Eddie:
“pleased and therefore shy about it”
“you’re walkin’ wavy”
“the heads are turnin’ like windmills”
“I’m responsible for you. You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things.”
“You’re getting’ to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more”
“Beatrice, all I’m worried about is you got such a big heart”
“I just don’t want you bein’ pushed around, that’s all. You got too