Arthur Miller Quotes

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

The words can not return.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Some things you can never get back.

With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.

There's always instances where you want those throws back, but the worst part about it is that I can't redo it.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.