28/02/2024

• Mr Birling:

  • "I speak as a hard-headed businessman"
  • "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
  • "The fact is, you allowed yourself to be bluffed - yes, bluffed."
• Sheila:

  • "Now I really feel engaged"
  • "You and I aren't the same people who sat down for dinner here."
  • "Fire and blood and anguish. And it frightens me the way you talk."
• Inspector:

  • "A chain of events."
  • "Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as priviliges."
  • "One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us."
  • "We don't live alone. We are all members of one body. We are responsible for each other."
• Gerald:

  • "I insist on being one of the family now. I've been trying long enough."
  • "I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women."
  • "Everything's alright now, Sheila" (holds up the ring) "Now what about this ring?"
• Mrs Birling:

  • "Girls of that class - "
  • "He should be made an example of... and he ought to be dealt with very severely - "
  • "I don't believe it. I won't believe it."
• Eric:

  • Half-shy, half-assertive
  • (shouting) "And I say the girl's dead and we all helped to kill her."
  • "You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble."