An Inspector Calls

• "The Titanic- ... - New York in five days - and every luxury - and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable." - Mr Birling, Act 1
• "The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everyone else" - Mr Birling, Act 1
• "Why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows." - Sheila, Act 1
• "Girls of that class" - Mrs Birling, Act 2
• "Chain of events" - Inspector, Act 1
• "Two hours ago a young woman died on the infirmary. She'd been taken there this afternoon because she'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course." - Inspector, Act 1
• "We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men do not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish." - Inspector, Act 3
• "If she'd been some miserable plain little creature, I don't suppose I'd have done it. But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn't be sorry for her." - Sheila, Act 1
• "One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives and what we think and say and do." - Inspector, Act 3
• "You began to learn something. And now you've stopped. You're ready to go on in the same old way." - Sheila, Act 3
• "I'm sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for it at all." - Mrs Birling, Act 2
• "Now just be quiet so that your father can decide what we ought to do" - Mrs Birling, Act 3
• "You seem to be a nice well-behaved family." - Gerald, to Mr Birling, Act 1
• "Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility" - Mrs Birling, Act 2
• "Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it. [He looks from one to the other of them carefully] But then I don't think you ever will." Inspector, Act 3
• "A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course, when he has one - and so long as he does that he won't come to much harm." - Mr Birling, Act 1
• "As a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he's about - I say, you can ignore all this silly pessimistic talk." Mr Birling, Act 1
• "You'd think a girl had never any clothes before she gets married. Women are potty about 'em." - Eric, Act 1
• "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices." - Eric, Act 1
• "The money's not the important thing. It's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters." - Eric, Act 3
• "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth." Mr Birling, Act 1
• "Sorry - I - well, I've suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she's dead - " - Gerald, Act 2
• "Public men, Mr Birling, have their responsibilities as well as their privileges." Inspector, Act 2
• "I know I'm to blame - and I'm desperately sorry." and "I can't stop thinking about it." Sheila, Act 2
• "I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty." Eric, Act 3
• "I did keep a girl last summer. I've admitted it. And I'm sorry Sheila." Gerald, Act 2