Inspector calls

Cards (125)

  • "If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn't it?" - Mr Birling
  • "it's better to ask for the earth than to take it" - Inspector
  • "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices." - Eric Birling
  • "I'd have let her stay" - Eric Birling
  • "Pretty?" - Sheila Birling
  • "(miserably) So I'm really responsible?" - Sheila Birling
  • "It was my own fault." - Sheila Birling
  • "Inspector: And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?
    Gerald: If possible - yes."
  • "We have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt." Inspector
  • "in any case I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-" - Mrs Birling
  • "You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl." Sheila
  • "he's giving us the rope -so that we'll hang ourselves." Sheila
  • "Simply because I've done nothing wrong - and you know it." - Mrs Birling
  • "Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility" - Mrs Birling
  • "When this comes out at the inquest, it isn't going to do us much good. The Press might easily take it up-" Mr Birling
  • "it wasn't I who had her turned out of her employment - which probably began it all." - Mrs Birling
  • "so I told her it was her business to make him responsible." - Mrs Birling
  • "I accept no blame for it at all." Mrs Birling
  • "Inspector: Who is to blame then?
    Mrs Birling: First, the girl herself."
  • "I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have [...] He should be made an example of. If the girl's death is due to anybody, then it's due to him." - Mrs Birling
  • "he ought to be dealt with very severely-" - Mrs Birling
  • "You're behaving like a hysterical child tonight." - Mrs Birling
  • "make sure that he's compelled to confess in public his responsibility - instead of staying here and asking quite unnecessary questions" - Mrs Birling
  • "you don't get drunk" - Mrs Birling
  • "Sheila, take your mother along to the drawing-room" - Mr Birling
  • "I wasn't in love with her or anything - but I like her - she was pretty and a good sport" - Eric Birling
  • "In a way, she treated me - as if I were a kid." - Eric Birling
  • "Inspector: but just remember this. One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night."
  • "there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us" - Inspector
  • "all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do." - Inspector
  • "We are members of one body." - Inspector
  • "We are all responsible for each other." - Inspector
  • "the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish." - Inspector
  • "An Inspector Calls" was published in 1985.
  • "Mr Birling: (angrily to Eric) You're the one I blame for this."
  • "Most of this is bound to come out. There'll be a public scandal." - Mr Birling
  • "But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood" - Mr Birling
  • "I'm ashamed of you as well - yes both of you." - Eric Birling
  • "There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did - it turned out unfortunately, that's all" - Mr Birling
  • "I don't care about that. The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything." - Sheila Birling