Inspector calls Quotes Only

• "Its better to ask for the earth than take it." - inspector goole says its better to ask for something than take it by brute force
• "We are members of one body" - Goole reminds the birlings we are all a community which cannot function without a collective responsibility
• "What happened to her afterwards ... a chain of events" - goole tells the birlings their actions have amounted to a chain of events
• "each of you helped to kill her remember that never forget it" - goole doesnt want the birlings to forget their actions indirectly killed smith
• "their are millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths still left with us" - goole
• "if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish" - Inspectors final sermon like speech
• "Im talking as a hard- headed, practical man of business and i say there isn't a chance of war" - Mr birling talks about himself boastfully
• "Unsinkable absolutely Unsinkable" - mr birling looks foolish as he boldly proclaims the titanic cannot sink
• "A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own" - Mr birling suggests materialist commodities come before the welfare of his family
• "As if we were all mixed together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense" - Mr birling believes the concept of social responsibility is absurd
• "For lower costs and higher prices" - Mr birlings speech and how he hopes to exploit the lower classes further by joining up w the crofts
• "I consider i did my duty" - mrs birling believes it is her duty to turn away the undeserving
• "Girl of that class." - Mrs birling speaks scathingly and derogatorily of eva smith
• "A rather cold woman, her husbands social superior" - Mrs birling initial stage description
• "I wont believe it. / I dont believe it." - mrs birling denies to accept responsibility
• "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people." - sheila questions workers rights
• "Mummy and Daddy" -> "Mother and father" - sheilas transformation shown through her language which is initially infantile then mature
• "He knows you fool" - sheila tells gerald the inspector is omniscient so its futile trying to conceal knowledge from him
• "Is it the one you wanted me to have?... now i really feel engaged." - sheila obsessed with materialistic and superficial items allows herself to be exploited
• "So i'm really responsible?" - sheila immediately feels a sense of social responsibility and is revulsed by her actions
• "what he made me feel fire ,blood and anguish" - sheila emulates the inspectors final sermon like speech
• "Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive." - Eric initial stage description
• "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?" we try for the highest prices." - eric challenging the unscrupulous treatment of his father to his employees
• "I wasnt in love with her or anything- but i liked her - she was pretty and a good sport." - Eric describes his feelings about eva
• "And thats when it happened. And i dont even remember- thats the hellish thing." - eric placates the rape into a euphemism
• "you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble thats why." - Eric has a poor relationship with birling
• "(the easy well-bred young man about town)" - Gerald intial character description
• "we're respectable citizens not criminals" - Gerald stereotypes morality based on class
• "She didn't blame me at all I wish to god she had now" - gerald creates a facade of remorse
• "young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things" - Inspector to which Gerald agrees.
• "Everythings all right sheila. what about this ring?" - Gerald thinks he can remarry Sheila in spite of all the revelations
• "I don't come into this suicide business" - gerald thinks suicide is a business
• "As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person" - Goole illustrates the way eva was treated by the birlings, her humanity, her autonomy all disregarded
• "pink and intimiate" -> "brighter and harder" - Lighting stage directions