Inspector Goole Key Quotes

• [The Inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness]
• [cutting through, massively]
• [coolly, looking hard at him]
• [ gravely ]
• [ dryly ]
• [ impressively ]
• [ harshly ]
• [ sharply ]
• [ very sternly ]
• "She'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course"
• "She was in great agony ... Suicide of course"
• "This young woman, Eva Smith, was a bit out of the ordinary"
• "One person and one line of enquiry at a time"
• "What happened then may have determined what happened to her afterwards ... a chain of events"
• "Why did you refuse?"
• "It's my duty to ask questions"
• "It's better to ask for the earth than to take it"
• "I don't play golf"
• "The girl's dead though"
• "There's a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country"
• "It would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms"
• "That's more or less what I was thinking earlier tonight, when I was in the infirmary looking at what was left of Eva Smith. A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody's made of it"
• "All in good time"
• "If you're easy with me, I'm easy with you"
• "You're partly to blame, just as your father is"
• "You might be said to have been jealous of her"
• "You used the power you had... to punish the girl"
• "But you can't, it's too late. She's dead"
• "I'm not going until I know all that happened"
• "You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?"
• "A girl died tonight. A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm. But she died in misery and agony - hating life"
• "We have to share something. If there's nothing else, we have to share our guilt"
• "He must wait his turn"
• "Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges"
• "I think that you did something terribly wrong - and that you're going to spend the rest of your life regretting it"
• "She'd been turned out and turned down too many times. This was the end"
• "I'm losing all patience with you people. What did she say?"
• "You'll be able to divide the responsibility between you when I've gone"
• "Each of you helped to kill her, remember that. Never forget it"
• "Used her at the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person"