aic quotations

• "hard headed practical man of business" - Mr Birling
• "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" - Mr Birling
• the lighting should be pink and intimate until inspector arrives... brighter and harder
• a rather cold woman
• her husband's social superior
• Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
• Gerald... attractive chap around thirty
• not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
• half serious, half playful - sheila
• "You're squiffy" - Sheila
• "Don't be an ass Eric" - Sheila
• "You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted" - Mr Birling
• "lower costs and higher prices" - Mr Birling
• "Look mummy" - Sheila
• "Now I really feel engaged" - Sheila
• "Nobody wants war" - Mr Birling
• "Just a knighthood of course" - Mr Birling
• "Please sir, an inspector's called" - Edna
• impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
• "I was an alderman for years... Lord Mayor.." - Mr Birling
• "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
• "Still I can't accept any responsibility" - Mr Birling
• "four or five ringleaders" - Mr Birling
• "But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people" - Sheila
• "I'll never ever do it again to anyone" - Sheila
• cutting in with authority -inspector
• "No he's giving us the rope, so we'll hang ourselves" - Sheila
• "I met her... in the Palace Bar" - Gerald
• "Women of the town"
• "hard-eyed, dough-faced women" - Gerald
• "..she became your mistress" ... "Were you in love with her?" - Inspector
• "You were the wonderful fairy prince" - Sheila
• "You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here" - Sheila
• "dropped her when it suited him"
• "Mother, I think it was cruel and vile" - Sheila
• "a girl of that sort" - Mrs Birling
• "She was pretty and a good sport" - Eric
• "You stole the money?" ..from.. "the office"
• "You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble" - Eric
• "I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty" - Eric