An Inspector Calls Quotes

• "lighting should be pink and intimate... brighter and harder" - stage directions
• "when you have a daughter of your own... sheila means a tremendous lot to me... no longer competing but working together for lower costs and higher prices" - mr birling
• "oh gerald - you got it - is it the one you wanted me to have?" - sheila
• "there isn't a chance of war... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" - mr birling
• "everybody has to look after everybody else... like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense" - mr birling
• "still i cant accept any responsibility" - mr birling
• "she was a good looking girl - country bred... a good worker too... ready to promote her" - mr birling
• "its my duty to keep labour costs down" - mr birling
• "these girls arent cheap labour - theyre people" - sheila
• "no relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half-starved" - inspector
• "counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms" - inspector
• "(miserably) so im really responsible" - sheila
• "a pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm. Died in misery and agony - hating life" - inspector
• "girls of that class" - mrs birling
• "you musn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl" - sheila
• "hard-eyed dough-faced women" - gerald
• "naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case" - mrs birling
• "alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate. Needed not only money but advice, sympathy, friendliness... slammed the door in her face" - inspector
• "i was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty" - eric
• "i insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going - until she refused to take any more" - eric
• "there are millions and millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths... we dont live alone. we are members of one body. we are responsible for one another... fire and blood and anguish" - inspector
• "most of this is bound to get out. there'll be a public scamdal" - mr birling
• "we all helped to kill her" - eric
• "between us we drove that girl to commit suicide" - sheila
• (imitating inspector in his final speech) "you all helped to kill her" - mr birling
• "fire and blood and anguish" - sheila
• "no not yet. its too soon. i must think." - sheila
• "im talking as a hardheaded businessman" - mr birling
• "probably a socialist or some crank" - mr birling
• "she only had herself to blame" - mrs birling
• "and if i could help her now i would" - sheila
• "she didnt want me to marry her" - eric
• "you're not the type of father a chap could go to when hes in trouble" - eric
• "she told me she'd been happier than she'd ever been before" - gerald
• "everythings alright now sheila, what about this ring" - gerald