An Inspector Calls Key Quotes

• Mr Birling:

  "A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself... community and all that nonsense"

  "A bit of trouble with labour is all it is... a lot of wild talk"

  "This whole damned thing can have been a piece of bluff."
• Mr Birling: "A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself... community and all that nonsense"
• Mr Birling: "A bit of trouble with labour is all it is... a lot of wild talk"
• Mr Birling: "This whole damned thing can have been a piece of bluff."
• Mrs Birling:

  "Girls of that sort... they all have their price."

  "You can't interfere with the business!"

  "You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted."
• Mrs Birling: "Girls of that sort... they all have their price."
• Mrs Birling: "You can't interfere with the business!"
• Mrs Birling: "You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted."
• Sheila: "He knows something about me... doesn't he?"
• Eric: "You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble."
• Inspector Goole:

  "We don't go poking our noses into private lives."

  "One life is all we have, isn't it? That's the reason for taking care of it as well as we can."

  "No, he's giving us rope - so that we'll hang ourselves."
• Inspector Goole: "We don't go poking our noses into private lives."
• Inspector Goole: "One life is all we have, isn't it? That's the reason for taking care of it as well as we can."
• Inspector Goole: "No, he's giving us rope - so that we'll hang ourselves."
• Gerald: "I became at once the most important person in her life... you understand?"