The Crucible (1996)

Bruce Davison: Reverend Parris

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• Ezekiel Cheever : Purge your contempt and give us the name of the man who accused Putnam. You will say it, Corey.

  Reverend Parris : Speak man, we cannot releant. What say you, Corey?

  Giles Corey : More... Weight.

  Reverend Parris : Lay on. You are commanded by the court. Lay On!

  Giles Corey : AAH!

  [he dies] 

• Reverend Parris : Why did Goody Proctor discharge you from her service?

  Abigail Williams : Because I refused to be her slave.

  Reverend Parris : I have heard said that John Proctor and you...

  Abigail Williams : My name is good in the village! Elizabeth Proctor is an envious, gossipy liar!

• Reverend Parris : For having committed the crime of witchcraft, Rebecca Nurse, George Jacobs, Mary Easty, John Willard, Martha Corey, Elizabeth Howe, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Sibber, Hannah Bellows, Bridget Bishop and Sarah Osbourne are from this church with all its blessings and every hope of heaven hereby excommunicate.

• John Proctor : Why did you not call for a meeting before you decided to look for devils?

  Reverend Parris : Man cannot pick his teeth without some sort of meeting in this society. I'm sick of meetings.

  John Proctor : Society will not be a bag to swing around your head, Mr. Putnam.

• Reverend Parris : Now hear me, child. You must know that there is a faction in this church sworn to drive me from my pulpit.

  Abigail : I know that, sir.

  Reverend Parris : And they will destroy me now if my own house turns out to be the center of some obscene practice. Now, I saw someone naked running through the trees.

  Abigail : No one was.

  Reverend Parris : Don't lie to me! I saw it!

• Reverend Parris : I have invited the Reverend John Hale of Beverly to come to Salem. He has - he has delved deeply into all demonic arts and will surely go to the bottom of this.

• Reverend Parris : I did discover my niece with a number of her friends dancing in the forest.

  Rev. John Hale : You permit dancing?

• 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.

• Reverend Parris : We must not look to superstition in these matters, the Devil is precise.