key qoutes

• “pink and intimate […] brighter and harder”


  act 1 - stage directions, opening
• “is it the one you wanted me to have?”

  “what about this ring?”


  act 1 - sheila to gerald
• “unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable […] silly little war scares”


  act 1 - mr birlings speech
• “as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive”


  act 1 - mr birling to gerald and eric
• “sharp ring“

  “massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”


  act 1 - stage directions used to describe the inspector
• “but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”


  act 1 - sheila to mr birling during his interrogation
• “no, he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves“


  act 2 - sheila to her family
• “i didn’t install her there so that i could make love to her”


  act 2 - gerald during his interrogation
• “go and look for the father of the child. it’s his responsibility“


  act 2 - mrs birling to the inspector during her interrogation
• “alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate“


  act 2 - the inspector to mrs birling during her interrogation
• “that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and i threatened to make a row”


  act 3 - eric to the inspector during his interrogation
• “i liked her - she was pretty and a good sport”


  act 3 - eric to the inspector during his interrogation
• “used her […] as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person”


  act 3 - the inspector to the birlings before he leaves
• “there are millions and millions and millions of eva smiths”


  act 3 - the inspector to the birlings before he leaves
• “we are members of one body. we are responsible for each other”


  act 3 - the inspector to the birlings before he leaves
• “they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish”


  act 3 - the inspector to the birlings before he leaves
• “pleased with themselves”

  “leaving them staring, subdued and wondering”


  act 3 - stage directions about the birlings after the inspector leaves
• “it frightens me the way you talk”

  “it frightens me too”


  act 3 - said by sheila then eric to mr and mrs birling after the inspector leaves
• “the way some of these cranks talk”


  act 1- mr birling to gerald and eric during his speech
• “community and all that nonsense”


  act 1 - mr birling to eric and gerald during his speech
• “well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down”


  act 1 - mr birling to the inspector during his interrogation
• “if you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth”


  act 1 - mr birling to the inspector during his interrogation
• “it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”


  act 1 - the inspector to mr birling during his interrogation
• “if we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody […], it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?”


  act 1 - mr birling to the inspector during his interrogation