Inspector calls quotes

Cards (32)

  • 'Look mother, can't you see' - Sheila
  • 'I insisted/ I made her take some money' - Gerald
  • 'Sorry- I- well, I've suddenly realised- taken it in properly- that she's dead' - Gerald
  • 'She wasn't the usual sort' 'She didn't know what to do' - Eric
  • 'I hate those fat old tarts' - Eric
  • 'I did my duty' - Mrs. Birling
  • 'You're behaving like a hysterical child' - Mrs. Birling
  • 'A rather cold woman' - Stage notes about Mrs. Birling
  • 'Her husband's social superior' - Stage notes about Mrs. Birling
  • 'Crofts and Birling's are no longer competing but working together - for lower costs and higher prices' - Mr. Birling
  • 'As if were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense' - Mr. Birling
  • 'No, not yet. It's too soon. I must think.' - Sheila
  • 'Look - mummy - isn't it a beauty' - Sheila
  • 'The famous younger generation, who think hey know it all' - Mr. Birling
  • 'We are members of one body' - Inspector
  • 'As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person' - Inspector
  • 'Millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their loves, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives' - Inspector
  • 'Better to ask for the earth, than to take it' - Inspector
  • 'If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in blood and fire and anguish' - Inspector
  • 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - there people' - Sheila
  • 'And I say the girl is dead and we all helped to kill her - and that what matters' - Eric
  • 'Hard-headed practical business man' - Stage notes about Mr. Birling
  • 'Not only something to make em' look prettier - but well sort of sign or token of self respect' - Mr. Birling
  • 'Girls of that class' - Mrs. Birling
  • 'lighting should be pink and intimate until inspector arrives, then brighter and harder' - Stage notes
  • 'We're respectable citizens, not criminals' - Gerald
  • 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty' - Eric
  • 'When your married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to that, just as I did' - Mrs. Birling
  • 'Ive got too cover this up as soon as I can' - Mr. Birling
  • 'Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable' - Mr. Birling
  • 'I don't come into this suicide business' - Gerald
  • 'Possibly but you weren't asked to come here to talk about my responsibilities' - Mr. Birling