An Inspector Calls

• ‘And as it happened more than eighteen months ago- nearly two years ago- obviously had nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl’s suicide’ - Mr Birling
• ‘You killed her’ - Eric
• ‘My child - your own grandchild - you killed them both’ - Eric
• ‘That’s the hellish part’ - Eric
• ‘If I could help her now, I would‘ - Sheila
• ‘The time will soon come when, if men don’t learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish’ - Inspector
• ‘Her position is now that she lies with a burnt out inside on a slab’ - Inspector
• ‘I threatened to make a row’ - Eric
• ‘We don’t live alone. We are members of one body’ - Inspector
• ‘You’re behaving like a hysterical child’ - Mrs Birling
• ‘Probably a socialist or some sort of crank - he talked like one‘ Mr Birling
• ‘It was a piece of gross impertinence‘ - Mrs Birling
• ‘Damned impudence’ - Mr Birling
• ‘It’s hard to say’ - Gerald
• ‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.’ - Eric
• ‘Pink and intimate to brighter and harder’- lighting
• ‘As they stare guilty and dumbfounded, the curtain falls’ - last stage direction
• ‘If you’re easy with me, I’m easy with you’ - Inspector
• ‘You! You don’t seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.’ - Mr Birling
• ‘Substantial and heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike’ - setting
• ‘He’s only a boy’ - Mrs Birling
• ‘Excitable queer moods’ - Mrs Birling
• ‘You’re not that type- you don’t get drunk’ - Mrs Birling
• ‘Edna’ll go’ - Mr Birling
• ‘There are a lot of women living that sort of existence, Miss Birling in every city and big town in this country’ - Inspector
• ‘Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, Inspector? - Mr Birling
• ‘After all, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals‘ - Gerald
• ‘I’ve done nothing wrong - and you know it’ - Mrs Birling’
• ‘Is it the one you wanted me to have?’ - Sheila
• ‘I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it’ - Mrs Birling
• ‘A young, unmarried girl is being dragged into this‘ - Mrs Birling
• ‘You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble‘ - Eric
• ‘Each of you helped to kill her. Never forget it’ - Inspector
• ‘I was very rude‘ - Sheila
• ‘It was my own fault’ - Sheila
• ‘I know I’m to blame’ - Sheila
• ‘We can keep it from him’- Gerald
• ‘The opposite of hard and tough, and able to look after herself’ - Gerald
• ‘Obviously an SOS’ - Gerald
• ’There’ll be a public scandal unless we’re lucky and who here will suffer from that more than I will?’ - Mr Birling