An Inspector Calls

• The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives then it should be brighter and harder'
• 'You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted' - Mr Birling
• 'for lower costs and higher prices' - Mr Birling
• 'I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business' - Mr Birling
• 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable' - Mr Birling
• 'community and all that nonsense' - Mr Birling
• 'a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own and-' - Mr Birling
• 'the Inspector (...) creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness'
• 'Why -you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I'll hate to think how much he knows'
• 'She's had a long, exciting and tiring day (...) she's obviously had about as much as she can stand.' - Gerald
• 'We have to share something. And if there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt.' - the Inspector
• 'Girls of that class-' - Mrs Birling
• 'That - I consider- a trifle impertinent, Inspector.'
• (Sheila gives a short hysterical laugh) (...) 'Perhaps it's because impertinent is such a silly word.'
• 'as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.'
• 'there are million and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths'
• 'if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.'
• 'We don't live alone. We are all members of one body. We are all responsible for each other.'
• 'you killed her - (...) - my child - your own grandchild - you killed them both.'
• 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble.'
• 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and I threatened to make a row.'
• 'we have to share something. If there's nothing else we'll have to share our guilt.'
• 'I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women'
• 'She was very pretty - soft brown hair and big dark eyes'
• 'All she wanted to do was talk'
• 'She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful'
• 'You were the wonderful fairy prince'
• 'This disgusting affair (...) It's disgusting to me'
• 'She had only herself to blame'
• 'I hate these fat old tarts round the town'
• 'I've got to cover this up'
• 'there's an excuse for what both your mother and I did'
• 'And I say the girl's dead and we all helped to kill her'