Death Of A Salesman Quotes

Front 1

I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.

Back 1

WIlly Loman, Act 1

Front 2

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

Back 2

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 3

Well, dear, life is a casting off. It's always that way.

Back 3

Linda Loman, Act 1

Front 4

The competition is maddening!

Back 4

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 5

Why does Dad mock me all the time?

Back 5

Biff Loman, Act 1

Front 6

I don't know--what I'm supposed to want.

Back 6

Biff Loman, Act 1

Front 7

I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for.

Back 7

Happy Loman, Act 1

Front 8

I gotta show some of those pompous, self-important executives over there that Hap Loman can make the grade.

Back 8

Happy Loman, Act 1

Front 9

If I could get ten thousand or even seven or eight thousand dollars I could buy a beautiful ranch.

Back 9

Biff Loman, Act 1

Front 10

You gotta stick around. I don't know what to do about him, it's getting embarrassing.

Back 10

Happy Loman, Act 1

Front 11

Someday I'll have my own business, and I'll never have to leave home anymore.

Back 11

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 12

He's liked, but he's not well-liked.

Back 12

Biff Loman. Act 1

Front 13

The man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want.

Back 13

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 14

I'm fat. I'm very--foolish to look at, Linda.

Back 14

WIlly Loman, Act 1

Front 15

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!

Back 15

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 16

The woods are burning! I can't drive a car!

Back 16

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 17

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

Back 17

Charley, Act 1

Front 18

All I remember is a man with a big beard, and I was in Mamma's lap sitting around the fire, and some kind of high music.

Back 18

Willy Loman, Act 1

Front 19

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

Back 19

Uncle Ben, Act 1

Front 20

Dad left when I was such a baby and I never had a chance to talk to him and I feel--kind of temporary about myself.

Back 20

WIlly Loman, Act 1

Front 21

I don't say he's a great man, Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

Back 21

Linda Loman, Act 1

Front 22

Biff, a man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

Back 22

Linda Loman Act 1

Front 23

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--

Back 23

Linda Loman, Act 1

Front 24

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Back 24

Linda Loman, Act 1

Front 25

Before it's all over we're gonna get a little place out in the country, and I'll raise some vegetables, and a couple chickens...

Back 25

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 26

You didn't crack up again, did you?

Back 26

Howard Wagner, Act 2

Front 27

Do you know? when he died--and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston--when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.

Back 27

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 28

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away--a man is not a piece of fruit.

Back 28

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 29

This is no time for false pride, WIlly.

Back 29

Howard Wagner, Act 2

Front 30

...Because it's not what you do, Ben. It's who you know and the smile on your face! IT's contacts, Ben, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked.

Back 30

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 31

...when he walks into a business office his name will sound like a bell and all the doors will open to him! I've seen it, Ben, I've seen it a thousand times! You can't feel it with your hand like timber, but it's there!

Back 31

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 32

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

Back 32

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 33

I realized what ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Back 33

Biff Loman, Act 2

Front 34

I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I got fired today.

Back 34

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 35

Miss forsythe, youve just seen a prince walk by. a fine troubled, prince. A hardworking, unappreciated prince. A pal, you understand? a good companion. Always for his boys.

Back 35

Biff Loman, Act 2

Front 36

No, that's not my father. He's just a guy.

Back 36

Happy Loman, Act 2

Front 37

I've got to get some seeds. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground.

Back 37

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 38

You're a pair of animals!

Back 38

Linda Loman, Act 2

Front 39

We always told the truth!

Back 39

Happy Loman, Act2

Front 40

Isn't that--isnt that remarkable? Biff--he likes me!

Back 40

Willy Loman, Act 2

Front 41

He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong.

Back 41

Biff, Requiem

Front 42

He never knew who he was.

Back 42

Biff

Front 43

I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain blah blah blah this is so much to type -3-

Back 43

Happy