Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it." (15
Willy to Linda
The dream of success is hard to achieve and when finally achieved, it is too late or took to long
Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understnad, you are going to be five times ahead of him." (33)
Willy to Biff and Happy
Willy has high expectations for his boys, but in reality and in the future, they are behind Bernard, not succeeding at the American Dream
Willly, the jails are full of fearless characters." (51)
Charley to
Because I know he's a fake and he doesn't like anybody around who knows!" (58)
Biff to Linda
You take it too hard. To hell with it. When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back." (44)
Charley to Willy
And if anything falls off the desk while you're talking to him- like a package or something-don't pick it up." (67)
Willy to Biff ?
...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- whenn he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at the funeral." (81)
Willy to Howard
I've often thought of how strange it was that I knew he'd given up his life. What happened in Boston, Willy?" (94)
Bernard to Willy
Willy, nobody's worth nothin' dead." (98)
Charley to Willy
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy." (134)
Ben to Willy ?
Sure, he's gotta practice with a regulation ball, doesn't he? Coach'll probably congratualte you on your initiative!" (30)
Willy to Happy and Biff
...they know me up and down New England...And when I bring you fellas up, there'll be open sesame for all of us, 'cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own." (31)
Willy to Biff and Happy
Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. 'Willy Loman is here!' That's all they have to know, and I go right through." (33)
Willy to Biff and Happy
You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take me." (36)
Willy to Linda
Cause I get so lonely-especially when business is bad and there's nobody to talk to." (38)
Willy to The Woman
God Almighty, he'll be great yet. A star like that, magnificent, can never really fade away!" (68)
Willy to Linda?
Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it's broken!" (73)
Willy to Linda
All the cement, the lumber, the reconstruction I put in this house! There ain't a crack to be found in it any more." (74)
Willy to Linda
Funny, y'know? After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years you end up worth more dead than alive." (98)
Willy to Charley
But the funeral-Ben , that funeral will be massive!...that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben because he nver realized-I am known!" (126)
Willy to Ben
Can you imagine that magnificence with twenty thousand dollars in his pocket?" (135)
Willy to Ben?
Oh, Ben, I always knew one way or another we were gonna make it, Biff and I!" (135)
Willy to Ben
I'll put you right through to the buyers." (39)
Willy to The Woman
A man who can't handle tools is not a man. You're disgusting." (44)
WIlly to Charley
Why, boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich." (48)
Ben to Willy
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way." (49)
Ben to
Either he's your father and you pay him respect, or else you're not to come here." (55)
Linda to Biff
This is no time for false pride, Willy. You go to your sons and you tell them that you're tired. You've got two greatboys, haven't you?" (83)
Howard to Willy
We had a fist fight. It lasted at least half an hour. Just the two fo us, punching each other down the cellar, and crying right through it." (94)
Bernard to Willy
We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house." (131)
Biff to Willy
Nobody dast blame this man...A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." (138)
Charley to Biff
Just because he printed University of Virginia on his sneakers doesn't mean they got to graduate him, Willy." (32)
Bernard to Willy
But somethimes, Willy, it's better for a man just to walk away." (95)
Bernard to Willy
...Who liked J.P. Morgan? Was he impressive? In a Turkish bath he'd look like a butcher. But with his pockets on, he was very well liked." (97)
Charley to Willy
Don't make any promises. No promises of any kind." (27)
Willy to Biff
Be liked and you will never want." (33)
Willy to Biff and Happy
Someday I'll have my own business...Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not liked." (30)
Willy to Biff and Happy
Please tell about Dad. I want my boys to hear. I want them to know the kind of stock they spring from." (48)
Willy to Ben
It'd be the family agian. There'd be the old honor, and comradeship..." (64)
Happy to Biff and Willy?
It's not what you say, it's how you say it-because personality always wins the day." (65)
Willy to Biff and Happy
His blue suit. He's so handsome in that suit. He could be a- anything in that suit." (72)
Linda to Willy
I told you we should have brought a well-advertised machine." (73)
Willy to Linda
...a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked."(86)
Willy to Ben
They'll be calling him another Red Grange. Twenty-five thousand a year." (89)
Willy to Charley
A family business...that's the best. 'Cause what's the difference? Sombody steals? It's in the family. Know what I mean?" (100)
Stanley to Happy
You mean to saw Bernard wouldn't give you the answers?" (118)
Willy to Biff
How do we get back to all the great times? Used to be so full of light and comradeship." (127)
Willy to Ben
I put thirty-four years into this firm... and now I can't pay my insurance!" (82)
Willy to Howard
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away... a man is not a piece of fruit!" (82)
Willy to Howard
I'm tired to death." (13)
Willy to Linda
I'd stopped in the middle of that buidling and I saw-the sky." (132)
Biff to Willy
I have such strange thoughts." (14)
Willy to Linda
I've always mad a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to wast my life." (22)
Biff to Happy
Gee, you are self-centered! Why so sad? You are the saddest, self-centeredest soul I ever did see-saw." (116)
The Woman to Willy
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." (97)
Charley to Willy
You've just seen a prince walk by. A fine, troubled prince. A hard-working, unappreciated prince." (114)
Biff to Miss Forsythe
I'll put my money on Biff." (18)
Willy to Linda
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be?What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!" (132)
Biff to Willy
You want to watch your schooling first." (28)
Willy to Biff
A small man can be just as exhauseted as a great man." (56)
Linda to Happy and Biff
Boston is the cradle of the revolution." (31)
Willy to Biff and Happy
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime." (54)
Linda to Biff
Yeah, but I cover myself!" (60)
Happy to Biff
The street is lined with cars. There's not a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood. The grass don't grow any more, you can't raise a carrot in the back yard." (17)
Willy to Linda