Death of a Salesman Quote Quiz

(116) "Gee, you are self-centered! Why so sad? You are the saddest, self-centeredest soul I ever did see-saw."

"The Woman"

(119) "I just hope there's nobody in the hall. That's all I hope."

"The Woman"

(39) You just kill me, Willy. You kill me. And thanks for the stockings. I love a lot of stockings."

"The Women"

(55) "Stop making excuses for him! He's always, always wiped the floor with you. Never had an ounce of respect for you."

Biff

(78) "I tell you, Willy, I'm gonna take my camera, and my bandsaw, and all my hobbies, and out they go. This is the most fascinating relaxation I ever found."

Howard

(129) "People ask where I am and what I'm doing, you don't know, and you don't care. That way it'll be off your mind and you can start brightening up again. All right?"

Biff

(132) "I am not a leader of men, Willy, neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like the rest of them!"

Biff

(138) "You know something, Charley, there's more of him in that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made."

Biff

(22) "This farm I work on, it's spring there now, see? And they've got about fifteen new colts. There's nothing more inspiring or- beautiful than the sight of a mare and a new colt."

Biff

(49) "Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."

Ben

(87) "There's a new continent on your doorstep, William. You could walk out rich. Rich!"

Ben

(32) "Listen, Biff, I heard Mr. Birnbaum say that if you don't start studyin' math he's gonna flunk you, and you won't graduate. I heard him!"

Bernard

(94) "I've often thought of how strange it was that I knew he'd given up his life. What happened in Boston, Willy?"

Bernard

(138) "Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, and he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back-that's an earthquake."

Charley

(44) "You take it too hard. To hell with it. When a deposit bottle is broken you don't get your nickel back."

Charley

(96) "My salvation is that I never took an interest in anything. There's some money - fifty dollars."

Charley

(97) "Willy, when you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that."

Charley

(100) "Look at that mouth...And the binoculars...Wait on her."

Happy

(138-139) "I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have-to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where I'm gonna win it for him."

Happy

(25) "I don't know what gets into me, maybe I have an overdeveloped sense of competition or something, but I went and ruined her, and furthermore I can't get rid of her. And he's the third executive I've done that to. Isn't that a crummy characteristic? And to top it all, I go their weddings!"

Happy

(66) "You're gonna live with me, kid, and any babe you want just say the word."

Happy

(68) "I'm gonna get married, Mom. I just wanted to tell you."

Happy

(62) "Don't interrupt. What's wonderful about it? There's fifty men in the City of New York who'd stake him."

Willy

(90) "I can't deal with him any more, and your father gets all upset every time he comes. I've got a lot of typing to do, and your father's waiting to sign it. Will you see him?"

Jenny

(113) "I gotta get up very early tomorrow. I got jury duty. I'm so excited! Were you fellows every on a jury?"

Letta

(37) "Willy, darling, you're the handsomest man in the world-"

Linda

(56) "You're such a boy! You think you can go away for a year and... You've got to get it into your head now that one day you'll knock on this door and there'll be strange people here-"

Linda

(99) "Ah, it's a dog's life. I only wish during the war they'd a took me in the Army. I coulda been dead by now."

Stanley

(19) "Remarkable. Ts. Remember those days? The way Biff used to simonize that car? The dealer refused to believe there was eighty thousand miles on it."

Willy

(27) Just wanna be careful with those girls, Biff, that's all. Don't make any promises. No promises of any kind. Because a girl, y'know, they always believe what you tell 'em, and you're very young, Biff, you're too young to be talking seriously to girls."

Willy

(39) "Good night. And keep your pores open!"

Willy

(41) "What's the mystery? The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he's rich! The world's an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress!"

Willy

(44) "A man who can't handle tools is not a man. You're disgusting."

Willy

(73) "Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it's broken! I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belt's like a maniac. They time those things. They time them so when you finally paid for them, they're all used up."

Willy

(90) "Jenny, Jenny, good to see you. How're ya? Workin'? Or still honest?"

Willy