Quotes

• Sheila 


  ''[miserably] So I'm really responsible?''

  ''I'll never, never do it again to anybody.''

  ''You mustn't build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.'' / ''the inspector will just break it down.''
• Eric

  ''Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?''

  ''I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty.''

  ''She was pretty - and a good sport''

  ''[unhappily] My God, I'm not likely to forget''
• The Inspector

  ''One Eva Smith has gone, but there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.''

  "We are all members of one body,"

  ''if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish."
• Mr. (Arthur) Birling

  "I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business"

  ''lower costs and higher prices''

  ''I can't accept any responsibility''

  ''There'll be a public scandal.''
• Mrs. Birling

  ''girls of that class''

  ''I think she only had herself to blame''

  ''I didn't like her manner.''

  ''As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!''

  "Unlike the others, I did nothing I'm ashamed of."
• Gerald Croft

  ''gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help''

  ''I was sorry for her''

  ''Everything's all right now - Sheila. What about this ring?''
• Sheila 0.2

  ''Now I really feel engaged''

  ''but these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people.''